VOCABULARIES. 



II. 



1. — Vocabulanj of the Tonyas^ or Tania-kwan. 



(Tort Tongas, Alaska.) 



A clan of the T'linkit nation, obtained from a vocabulary of the Hudson 

 ]3ay Company, by George Gibbs. 



2. — Vocahidanj of the Kai-ga'-ni. 



(Soutlierumost Alaska.) 



A clan of the Ilaida nation, obtained from a vocabulary of the Iliulson 

 Bay Company by George Gibbs. 



3. — Vocahnlary of the Chid' -s'm-ni. 



(Queen Charlotte Islands.) 



A clan of the Ilaida nation, obtained from some women of the tribe at 

 Olympia, Washington Territory, in 1854, by George Gibbs. 



Note. — A dialect of the Ilaida. Tlie following was chiefly col- 

 lected from some women avIio visited Olympia in the summer of 1S54. 

 The words marked with an asterisk (*) were obtained in 1857 from a 

 Ilaida Indian at Victoria, who professed to understand the language, 

 and are less reliable. The principal difficulty experienced was from 

 the nasal and indistinct utterance of the s);)eakers, and many words 

 are probably imperfectly written. — G. G. 



