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bered the days in each moon. Since that time they have used the fol- 

 lowing : — 



Sunday^ Ha-ha-at'-lis. 



Monday^ Tsla-pat'-lis. 



Tuesday^ Tsib-bi-as'-sab. 



Wednesday, Cha-da-kwi-sub. 



Thursday^ Bus-sa-tli'-sub. 



Friday^ Su-kus-tli'-sub. 



Saturday^ Sa-chub-its. 



The first means literally holy day; the second, past, i. e., one day past ; 

 the third, second day ; the fourth name, third day ; the fifth, fourth day ; 

 the sixth, fifth day; and the last, alongside, i. e., of, Sunday. 



Number of generations, moons, hunting-seasons, &g., to ichich memory 

 runshaclc. — How far tradition runs back they do not know. 



C— Yaluing. 



Means of establishing value, valuing, obligations, liens, transfers, money, 

 &c. — Formerly they had a kind of shell-money, the second described 

 under ear-rings, sec. 5, B. At present, they use the American standard 

 coin, both gold and silver, not having much to do with cifrreucy, as they 

 cannot read, and cannot tell the difference in the value of currency. 

 Their obligations, liens, transfers, &c., were, and are, all verbal, and 

 are sometimes broken. 



§ ^.— WRITING. 



None of the older Indians write, and none of the others, except those 

 who have been in our schools. I send, in connection with Part I, some 

 specimens from the school. They are generally as good as that of the 

 children of the white employes, who attend the same school and have 

 written for the same length of time. During the last four years, the 

 school has increased from an average attendance of five to thirty-five, 

 which is all that the Government funds will support ; for, in order to 

 secure anything like regular attendance and cleanliness, it is necessary 

 to keep most of them at the boarding-house, where Government sup- 

 ports, feeds, and clothes them ; also paying the teacher $1,000 in cur- 

 rency and the matron 8500 per annum. Thus far, the children have 

 studied only reading, spelling, writing, geography, arithmetic, and gram- 

 mar, all being taught in the English language, their own language never 

 having been reduced to writing. In the winter, they attend school six 

 hours a day, and in the summer three hours, working half of the day, 

 under the teacher, getting wood, in the garden, and the like. 



§ 10.— SPORTS AND PASTIMES. 



A. — Gambling. 



Number of games and mode of playing and effect. — There are three 



