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8. — Vocahularij of the Sjwkan. 



A tribe of the Selish family, obtained from Spokaii, a chief of the tribe, by 

 Greorge Gibbs. 



9. — Vocahularij of the PlsJiwaiis, or Winatsha. 



A tribe of the Selish family (living on the Columbia River from the Winat- 

 sha up to the Okinakane), collected in 1853, and subsequently revised 

 at Fort Colville in 1860, by George Gibbs. 



Note. — It is possible there may be dialectic differences between 

 the Indians from whom it was obtained. — G. G. 



NOTE. 



The following extract, from "Instructions for Research relative to the 

 Ethnology and Philology of America", by Geoi-ge Gibbs (Smithsonian Mis- 

 cellaneous Collections, No. 160), is inserted as a guide to the spelling of the 

 Avlthin vocabularies by Dr. Gibbs. Those by Dr. Tolmie do not follow the 

 same plan, but those by Father Mengarini seem to have been altered by Dr. 

 Gibbs to conform to his system of spelling : 



A as long in father, and short in German hut (nearly as in English what). 



E as long in they ("long «" inyacc), short in met. 



I as long in marine, short in pin. 



o as long in go, short in home, ivhole (as generally pronounced in the North- 

 ern States). 



u as long in rule (po in fool), short in full (oo in yood). U as in union, 

 pure, &c., to be written yu. 



A as in all (aw, an in hawl, taugld). 



A as in fat. 



y as in hut (o in love, oo in hlood). 



Ai as in aisle ("long i" in pine). 



Au as ow in now, ou in loud. 



The distinction of long and short vowels to be noted, as far as possible, 



by the division into syllables, joining a following consonant to a short vowel, 



