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ON TUE NORTH-WESTERN TRIBES OF CANADA. 869 



Evidently four is second two, six the second three, eight the second four, and five 

 and ten are also derived from the same stem, perhaps (g)tl, band. The formation of 

 four corresponds to that of the same number in Tlingit (see p. 857). I found no 

 ■double forms of numerals, except for one : sqoH'tUEil is the word generally used; 

 ^qa'fgu is used in counting divisions of time : 



td'da sqa'ggD, one year. 

 (fal sqa'sgo, one night. 

 gE)i sqa'sgu, one day, also all day long. 



In counting objects classifying words are used very extensively : 



na tliH stiil, two (sleep) houses. 



thi'iddn (fa sqod'ngKn, one (flat) bed. 



thv'idiln tlg-a sqod'nuK/T,, one (frame) bed. 



k-u'itla ka sti/'i, two (open) dishes. 



tlo Ifa stiii, two (open) canoes. 



tld gi sttn, two (?) canoes. 



tlk'a g-d'is sqod'nsF.n,, one (round) stone. 



/i-'fi stin., steamboat, two (ship) steamboats. 



tlk c'it sta sqad'usEn, one (?) bow. 



k-'i-t .i/ra gqod'nsBli, one (long) tree. 



gatatd'n tlga gqod'nsBu, one (with legs) table. 



No such classifying words are used in counting animals and divisions of time. 1 

 ii)ii unable to account for the following double form : 



t'tlBhqa st'in \ . ,„ 



-j7 J .. j-->twomen. 

 eUmistat stiiij 



Ordinal Numbers. 



The following ordinal numbers seem to me very doubtful : 



dPhtiui'ct, the first. lutlald'iiu, the fourth. 



di-tld'a, the second. Iwma gostld'na, the fifth. 



Idwago'st, the third. 



So far as I was able to discover, the cardinal numbers are generally used in place 

 ■of ordinal numbers. 



Numeral Adverbs. 



The numeral adverbs are formed by adding the suffix -gsii to the cardinal 

 numbers. 



sqod'nsEugEn, once. stl'ngBn, twice. 



Distributive Numbers. 



These are also expressed by the cardinal numbers. For ' one ' the form squn is 

 ased : 



squn qaula'il tla esta g-O'ganS, I give one to each. 

 stia qaula'fl tla esta g-o'ganc, I give two to each. 



THE PRONOUN. 



Personal Pronoun. 



There are two forms of the personal pronoun exactly alike in character to those 

 found in Tlingit : the former denoting simply the person, the second denoting that 

 the person is one among many. In Ilaida the latter is used for inflecting the transi- 

 tive verb, the former for inflecting the intransitive verb. The objective case of the 

 pronoun is the same as the intransitive pronoun. This would make it probable that 

 the intransitive verb is indeed impersonal, if it were not for the fact that the same 

 form is used for the ordinary pronoun. 



