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REPOKX 1889. 



Note. — I found a peculiar possessive form in a few sentences, which, it would 

 seem, is used where object and subject are the same person : 



i'alan tl tlnga, I wash my skin. 



qdngan la tlnga, he washes his face. 



tlgan ha tl i'sg-asga, I shall go to my country. 



tlgan tl k'ing'asga, I shall see my country. 



THE VERB. 



In discussing the pronoun we stated that there are two forms, one for the transi- 

 tive, the other for the intransitive verb, the latter being identical with the objective 

 case of the transitive pronoun. This makes it probable that the intransitive verb 

 may be impersonal. The division of transitive and intransitive verbs is, of course, 

 peculiar to the language, but it will be found very much like that observed in Tlingit. 

 Following is a list of intransitive and transitive verbs in the first person singular : 



Intransitive Veebs. 



de qd'etqaga, I am a Haida. 



de gyltina'ga, I belong to the eagle gens. 



de st'c'ga, I am sick. 



de lu'ga, I am well. 



de Igilga, I recover from sickness. 



de ngaistlE/l, I recover from sickness. 



de k-'oe'ta, I am hungry. 



de ff'd'doga, I am thirsty. 



de stdtlga, I like. 



de u'nsetga, I know to — 



de ran(j\ I have. 



de h^aesiiidd' ga, I forget. 



Transitive Verbs. 



tla sk-age'tlga, I cry. 



tla ma'tlga, I dance. 



tla iid'ga, I eat with somebody. 



tla e'sta, I give. 



tla k-d'ga, 1 go. 



tla dd'raga, I have. 



tla'giidE'n, I hear. 



tla te'aqan, I kill. 



tla lUd'ga, I laugh. 



tla qutlga, I drink. 



tla ga taga, I eat (it). 



tla g'u'tlraga, I make. 



tl hrnga, I see. 



tla h^d'ga (tla thd'gaf), I sleep. 



tla shunguds' HgEn, I smell. 



tla Ke'tlkulga, I talk. 



tla gu'dsn (see degv'dEnra), I think. 



tl tlnga, I wash. 



I found four tenses : the present, imperfect, perfect, and future ; and five moods : 

 the indicative, interrogative, negative, imperative, and infinitive. I have no examples 

 of the conjunctive and conditional which make their use sufficiently clear. I shall 

 first give the tenses of the intransitive verb in a paradigmatic form : 



st'e, sick. 



In inflecting the transitive verb the pronoun is placed immediately before the 

 verb. In some instances the verb has an indefinite object, ga, exactly corresponding 

 to the same indefinite object in Tlingit (see p. 861). It is placed between the subject 

 and the verb : tla ga ta, I eat it. As a rule, the object is placed before the subject, 

 but when the object is a pronoun and has a separate objective form (1st, 2nd, person 

 singular, 1st person plural) the sequence may be reversed. Following is a paradig- 

 matic table of the transitive verb in the present tense : 



I found the following doubtful future : 1 gferan k-aca'raga, lie is going to be sick. 



