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into eight separate groups or village communities, whicli together number 

 about fifty adult males. The names of these villages and their respective 

 chiefs, as given to me by ' Captain ' John, sui'm of Suicd'le, are as 

 follows :— 



Vill.agea. Chiefs. Number of adult males, 



1. SQai Mo'tes 9 



2. SQaul'lO KlaealEtn 4 



3. A'tsplits Swaiu's 2 



4. Skauke'l QiitOku'eta 9 



5. Yukukweu's Qiite'selta 7 



6. Tcia'ktE'l — 3 



7. C'lii'lki Weu'sEluk 1 



8. Suwa'ie Swa'lEs 12 



In earlier days the tribe was less scattered than at present, and had 

 its settlements on the upper reaches of the Chilliwack River, contiguous 

 to Siiwa'le, the former headquarters of the tribe. I obtained from 

 ' Captain ' John the names of these old settlements. They are : — 



Suwa'le = ' melting away ' ; so called because the people here once died in 



great numbers. 

 SkwEa'lets = ' coming in of the water.' 

 St'lEp=:'home country' ; so called because here, on a level stretch of land 



lying between the forks of the river, the old long communal houses of 



the tribe were situated. 

 Cdltelitc, from (jacjal = ' back ' ; so called because the settlement was on the 



edge or ' back ' of a slough. 

 Qo-Qai':l = ' maggot-fly ' ; so called because of the number of maggot-flies 



found there in the summer. 



These settlements constituted the original home of the Tcil'Qe'uk, 

 according to the traditions of the tribe. They have no record of any 

 other ancestral home. In their own words, they 'have always dwelt 

 there, looking on the same sky and the same mountains.' According to 

 one of their niyths, they dwelt here before the Chilliwack River sprang 

 from the mountains. This river rises in a mountain lake known locally 

 as ' Cultus ' Lake, but called by the Indians themselves Stcl'eltca ; and 

 its formation is said to have come about in the following manner. In 

 the olden days there lived a youth who frequented this lake. Its shores 

 were his training-ground. One day he came to the village and said he 

 had learned in a dream {lilla) how to make water run. The people 

 lau<^hed and jeered at him. Said he to them : ' To show you that I can 

 do as I say I will make the water of the lake run by the village before 

 the sun sets.' With that he started for the lake. A little later he 

 appeared in the village again. ' Look out now,' he cried ; ' the water will 

 soon be here.' Presently a small stream of water was seen descending 

 the slope. In a short time this increased to a rushing torrent, which, as 

 there was no bed for it to run in, divided and ran in several directions, 

 cuttino out in its course the different channels or arms through which 

 the water now flows before uniting in the one stream. It is quite pos- 

 sible this myth or tradition has some foundation in fact. The waters of 

 the river are clearly the overflow of the lake. This overflow may have 

 formerly had some other outlet, which for some reason or other failed to 

 do its work, and a new outlet became necessary. While none of the 

 Tcil'Qe'uk Indians entertain any doubt about the truth of this tradition, 

 the younger and more intelligent of them believe that the youth of the 



