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bring back tlie small-pox. By llie governor's diroction, tlioy, on tliat occa- 

 sion, named two subcliiefs from each village, from whom he selected an 

 Osett, named Tse-kau-ntl, as head chief This treaty secured to them the 

 point of the peninsula, including the site of the old Spanish fort, on Neeah 

 I3ay, and the Waatch village on the coast. 



The Klallam I consider to be another branch of the Selish, though of 

 a more remote oiigin than the Niskwalli. Their opposite neighbors of 

 Vancouver Island, the Soke or Tsohke of Soke Inlet, and the Tsong or 

 Songhu of Victoria belong to the same connection. The tribe is still a 

 numerous one though like others of the district, considerably reduced. A 

 few families have removed to, and are permanently settled on, the island. 

 Their proper country lies on the straits between the Okeho River and Point 

 Wilson; but, after the reduction of the Tsemakum, many of them estab- 

 lished themselves at Port Townshend. The Klallam were embraced in the 

 same treaty with the Tsemakum and the Skokomish, and a common I'eser- 

 vation made for them at the head of Hood Canal. Since the death of 

 S'Hai-ak, or King George, Tsitz-a-mah-han, or Duke of York, has been 

 recognized as the head chief Their total number is now 926. Their princi- 

 pal villages are Okeho, at the mouth of that river; Pishtst, on Klallam Bay; 

 Elwa, at the mouth of a stream so called; Yinnis, at False Dungeness; 

 Stehtlum, at New Dungeness; Kahkwaitl, at Port Discovery; and a recent 

 one at Kahtai, or Port Townshend. 



The Tsemakum are reduced to !»0 souls. Their original country 



embraced Port Townshend, Port Ludlow, and Port Gamble. The tribe 



probably was never a very large one, but has been noted among all its 



neighbors for its pugnacity. It has been successively engaged in wars 



Avith the Makah, Klallam, Toan-huch, Snohomish, and Dwamish, in all of 



which it suffered severely. Their present chief is Elsakweoit. These as 



before mentioned have, like the Kwillehiiit, been classed with the Selish 



ti-ibes. Singularly enough, while their languages exhibit greater resemblance 



to each other, notwithstanding their relative position, than do either to their 



inunediate neighbors, the Tsemakum is literally an unknown tongue to 



the rest; not an individual, it is said, out of the tribe being acquainted with 

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