BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



To run. 



To dance (Indian dance). 



ing\ 

 To sleep. 

 To speak. 

 To see. 

 To love. 

 To kill. 

 To sit. 

 To stand. 

 To go. 

 To come. 

 To walk. 

 To work. 

 To steal. 

 To lie. 

 To give. 

 To laugh. 

 To cry. 



We-cbu'-chun. 



Skwates. 



S'il-lal. 



S'to-pad'. 



S-lay-al-kwob. 



Sil-la-lap. 



S-hatM. 



At'-to-bid. 



Ab'-but. 



Us-sah-tad'-u-bit. 



S'ol. 



Tsi-u', hai-ti. 



Woh'-chab'. 



Su-a-chib. 



S'chfi-lo-al. 



Skwai-yup'. 



Sbi-hwa. 



Sbi-hwa-wa (whisper last syllable) 



11-lal. 



I have obtained these words by asking three or four individuals, 

 and where they differed, continually asking until I found which was 

 right. They are the native Twana. Quite a number talk the Nisqually 

 language entirely ; a large number understand, and it is said that dur- 

 ing the last few years more and more individuals are learning to speak 

 it. The great majority, however, talk the Twana language in their con- 

 versation among themselves. All except the old persons talk also the 

 Chinook in their intercourse with the whites and some other tribes of 

 Indians, and quite a number understand English. 



Their hnowledge of their own affairs. — Of their history they know very 

 little except what the oldest remember. 



Their theories of natural phenomena.^ as sunrise and sunset^ the origin 

 and motion of the heavenly hodies, thunder and lightning, tcind, rain, &g. — 

 They supposed that the sun really rose and set, and not that the world 

 turned over as they have been told. 



Wind they supposed was caused by the breath of a great being, who 

 blew with his mouth. In this they reasoned from analogy, as a man can 

 with his breath cause a small wind. 



Cold they supposed to be caused by our getting farther away from the 

 sun in the winter, for they suppose that the sun is much farther off 

 when it is low than when it is high, and that the cold regions are away 

 from the sun, hence that we are near these cold regions in the winter. 



Thunder and lightning some supposed were caused by a great thunder- 

 bird flapping its wings, an idea which is prevalent among nearly all of 

 the Indians on the sound. Others suppose that a wicked tamanamus, 

 or medicine-man, very strong, caused it by his tamanamus when angry 

 with some one. 



