VOCABULARIES. 



III. 



1. — Vocalmlary of T\sim-si-an'. 



Obtained tlirougli Capt. W. A. Howard, from Dr. Kennedy of the Hudson 

 Bay Company, with additions byjGeorge Gibbs. 



2. — Vocahulanj of the Naas. 



(A di.alect of tlio T'sim-si-.an'.) 



Obtained from Celestin Ozier, a half-breed, at Port Townsliend, Washing- 

 ton Territory, in May, 1857, by George Gibbs. 



Note.— Celestin Ozier, of Victoria, a T'sim-si-an' half-breed, from 

 whom the within was obtained, gives the name Kis-pacli-lohts to the 

 tribe at Fort Simpson; Kl'-kus-kha-mo'-luks to that on the Naas River 

 at old Fort Simpson, and Nis-kah to one farther north. Says the 

 T'sim-si-an' call the Tongas, Ki-dah'-nuts, and the Sebassa, Kit- 

 haht'-la. 



According- to Father Loetuls, the T'sim-si-an' wants the letters w, 

 r, I, 2h ^i^d / The first becomes m in sounding English Avords, I is 

 changed to n, p to /.-, and / to c or /,:. I doubt this, however ; I may 

 be convertible Avith n, but neither that nor X) are wanting. The lan- 

 guage is, however, nasal. — G. G. 



3. — Vocabulary of Kit-tist-su. 



(A dialect of the T'sim-si-au'.) 



Obtained from Dr. Tolmie, of the Hudson Bay Company, by George 

 Gibbs. 



