400 REPORT — 1902. 



wink (to), tsetsekwa'sEm. worthless, bad, Qa'auts. 



■winter, tEm qa'it or qa'itla. wring (to), p'e'tsEt. 



wipe (to), e'akwot. 



wise, lukae'lEs. 



witch, sorcerer, yeu'wa. yawn (to), we'wEkus. 



witchcraft, seu'wa. year, si'lalEm. 



with, ska. yell (to), kwa'tcEm. 



I'll go with you, lam-tcil ska tE lua. yellow, skwai. 



woman, sla'li. yes, e. 



wood, tsuksu'k-Et. yesterday, tcila'ka^itl. 



wool, yarn (of mountain-goat), sa'e. you, tE tlewo'p. 



An analysis of the above list of words shows many synonyms. Some of these are 

 certainly non-Halkome'lEm, and are possibly remains of the older Tcil'Qe'uk speech. 

 A comparison of the Tcil'Qe'uk vocabulary with the Kwa'ntlEn will illustrate the 

 average or common differences and similarities found in the HalkOmO'lEra dialects. 

 The substitution of T for ' ?t' makes the differences seem greater than they really 

 are. 



The Pila'tlq. 



The Pila'tlq are a small tribe on the lower Chilliwack River, num- 

 bering now about five-and-twenty ; formerly they were more populous. 

 They border on the Tcil'Qe'uk, the old dividing line of the two tribes 

 lying between the modern white settlements of Sardis and Chilliwack. 

 This tribe was formerly divided into five villages or camps, named respec- 

 tively Qwale'wia, SqEla'uiuQ, Sk'wa'la, 2'cilil'l, and StcCi'tcuml. 



The first was so named from a large boulder which lay in the stream 

 close by the village. This rock was once an old woman, a seuioe'l, or 

 witch. She was turned into her present shape by Qals, the Transformer, 

 for venturing to contend with him in magic. Her metamorphosis came 

 about in this way. One day having heard that Qals was at Yale, pitting 

 his powers against those of a noted shaman there, and was about to come 

 down the river, she urinated in a little receptacle of basketry with the 

 intention of using the liquid to seutve'l (bewitch) Qals. When they met 

 Qals derided her attempts to overcome him and turned her into the rock. 

 Said he : ' You are a very poor sort of seuivd'I. I can do what I like with 

 you. I will punish you by transforming you into a boulder and placing 

 you in the stream.' This he did, and also the little receptacle she had 

 used ; and, placing it on her shoulders, turned it likewise into a stone. 

 Both may be seen there to this day. 



The second was so named because of a painted post in the house there, 

 SqEla'utuQ meaning the ' painted ' or ' marked ' house. 



The third and fourth were called after sloughs on which the villages 

 were situated. 



The fifth was so named because the deceased of this village were 

 always carried down to Tcutl'l to be buried. The term signifies ' a going 

 down.' 



I was unable to gather any information from any of them as to their 

 origin. At present they all live together in one settlement, close by the 

 landing at Chilliwack. The name of their present chief is QElkc'meltuQ 

 which is derived from qElkt=to 'show,' 'display,' 'mark,' and the 

 synthetic radical for ' house.' They have a tradition of the first white 

 man who came among them about seventy years ago. They call him 

 Miciyel and say he was a Hudson's Bay trader. 



There were three classes of shamans among the Pila'tlq, viz., the 

 sQEld'm or healer, the seu'wa or fortune-teller, and the seuwe'l ot witch. 



