692 REPORT—1890. 
Kalispeln. 
I give the terms of relationship in this dialect, which is closely related to the 
Okana’k’én according to Mengarini. 
to'pie, ancestor. 
sqacpe, father’s father. hene', father’s mother. 
sile', mother’s father. ch’chitz, mother’s mother. 
skusé'e, son. stomchelt, daughter. 
A re ° 
h’eus, elder brother. lcl’chschée, elder sister. 
sinzé, younger brother. lhak’ze, younger sister. 
“A . 
snveél, father’s brother. ka'ge, mother’s sister. 
s’si’i, mother’s brother. 
TERMS USED BY MALE. 
Leu, father. shoi, mother. 
shokoi, father’s sister. 
sgusmem, sister. 
. S brother's : 
tonsch, sister’s child. 
TERMS USED BY FEMALE. 
mestm, father. tom, mother. 
tikul, father’s sister. 
snkusigu, sister. 
J brother's 
> | sister’s 
brother's } 
» 
sister’s f son. sttmel elt 
shuselt, { } daughter. 
In Kalispelm we find once more a separate set of terms for indirect relationship — 
when the intermediate relation is dead: 
niuestn, father’s brother. sl uelt, brother’s child. 
TERMS OF AFFINITY. 
1. Husband, viz., rife alive. 
> 
sgagée, husband’s, wife’s father. izezch, husband’s, wife’s mother. 
sgelui, husband. nognag, wife. 
husband’s | 
seqgunemt, eel Ws i parents call Site's yf Pee 
enéechigu, son-in-law. zepn, ee 
szescht, sister’s husband. 
sestem, sister's husband, brother’s wife. 
2. Husband, viz., nife dead. 
s’chélp, daughter-in-law. 
nhoi'ztn, sister’s husband, brother’s wife. 
COMPARATIVE VOCABULARY OF EIGHTEEN LANGUAGES 
SPOKEN IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. 
[The following vocabularies comprise mainly the well-known list of 
words selected by Gallatin for his great work, the ‘Synopsis of the Indian 
Tribes’ (published in 1836), which may be said to have laid the founda- 
tion of American ethnology. The list was necessarily adopted, for the 
purpose of comparison, ten years later, in the Report of the Wilkes 
Exploring Expedition on the Tribes of Oregon, and subsequently, for the 
same object, by other investigators, including such eminent authorities as 
Messrs. Gibbs, Dall, and Powers, of the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology, and 
