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INDIAN TRIBES OF 



to the lunations, which are connected with their habits, and the climate. 

 They are as follows, viz. : 



Sustiki, 





January. 



Squasus, 



cold, 



February. 



Skiniramen, 



a kind of herb, 



March. 



Skaputsi, 



snow gone, 



April. 



Spatylus, 



bitter root, 



May. 



Staqumauos, 



going to root-ground, 



June. 



Itzwa, 



cammass-root, 



July. 



Sa antylku, i 

 Selamp, £ 







hot ; gathering brooms, 



August. 



Skelues, 



exhausted salmon, 



September. 



Skaai, 



dry moon, 



October. 



Kinui-etylyutiu, 



house-making, 



November. 



Kumakwala, 



snow moon, 



December. 



Of the more northern part of the Oregon Territory, through the 

 kindness of the officers of the Hudson Bay Company and residents, I 

 obtained much interesting information, little of which has, I believe, 

 been yet communicated to the public. I was as desirous as Mr. Hale 

 himself, that he should make a trip to the northern posts of the Com- 

 pany, after our departure from the country, but there were serious 

 obstacles which prevented his doing so. Besides, it would have 

 caused him a detention of several months, or have exposed him to an 

 arduous journey during the depth of winter, which he wisely deter- 

 mined to avoid. 



The operations of the Hudson Bay Company over the northern 

 portion of Oregon, which is included in their maps under the name 

 of New Caledonia, are very extensive, and in this section they have 

 nine posts. 



At Colville, the number of beaver-skins purchased is but small, and 

 the packs which accrue annually from it and its two outposts, Koutanie 

 and Flathead, with the purchases made by a person who travels 

 through the Flathead country, amount only to forty, including the bear 

 and wolf skins. Muskrats, martens, and foxes, are the kinds most 

 numerous in this neighbourhood. The outposts above-mentioned are 

 in charge of a Canadian trader, who receives his outfit from Colville. 



Fort Chillcoaten is a clerk's station, in latitude 52° 10' N., on the 

 Chillcoaten branch of Fraser's river. The Chillcoatens are a small 

 tribe, numbering about sixty families, and only four packs of peltries 

 are made by them. A pack is equal to fifty-five beaver-skins of large 

 size : a beaver-skin costs one foot and a half of tobacco (rolled kind), 

 or six are bought for a blanket. 



