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VOCABULARIES OF NORTH AMERICAN LANGUAGES. 
the upper San Francisco river, abont five clays’ journey north of the Gila. The Apaches 
acknowledge them as belonging to the same great tribe as themselves. They are the Indians 
who carried off the unfortunate Inez Gonzales, whose story forms so romantic an episode in Mr. 
Bartlett’s “Personal Narrative.” 
That the Apaches and their congeners belong to the Athapascan family, which extends across 
the northern portion of the continent from Hudson’s Bay almost to the Pacific ocean, I have 
shown in a paper read before the American Ethnological Society, and published in the Literary 
World of April II, 1852. Mr. Hale had already shown that small fragmentary tribes belong¬ 
ing to this widely extended stock reach down, near the shores of the Pacific, as far south as the 
Umkwa river. From the Hoopali vocabulary, since published in Mr. Schoolcraft’s work, it is 
evident that these people wandered still further in the same direction—at least as far as the 
Hudson’s Bay. 
(Dobbs.) 
Chepewyan. 
(Mackenzie.) 
Dog-Rib. 
(Richardson.) 
Tacully. 
(Harmon.) 
1 
Man. 
dinnie. 
tchel-a-qui. 
ten-nee. 
2 
Head. 
tenet-thee. 
edthie. 
tzat-the. 
pit-sa. 
3 
Hair. 
tenet-thea-cau_ 
tliiegah. 
setz-the-rp’ha, ... 
ote-zeca. 
4 
Ear. 
tenet-’tsaw. 
setz-r-rglia. 
o-oho. 
5 
Eye. 
tene-naw. 
nack-hay. 
tzen-nhae. 
o-now. 
6 
Nose . 
tene-chee. 
tze-etze . 
pa-nin-chis. 
I 
Tongue ... 
tene-thoon. 
edthu. 
tze-tthou . 
t so o-l a,. 
8 
Tooth. 
tene-hough. 
P’OO. 
tze-o-wlio (?) ^ 
oh-coo. 
9 
Neck. 
tene-cassan. 
tze-e-e-eotfl e.. 
10 
Hand. 
tene-law. 
law. 
ssa-1 a. 
o-la. 
11 
Lee;. 
tene-clia-thee. 
edthen . 
tze-thunna. 
o-ca-chin. 
12 
Foot. 
tene-crah. 
cull. 
tze-ka. 
o-ca. 
13 
Blood. 
dell. 
dell. 
sko. 
14 
Knife. 
pace. 
bess. 
pa-as . 
15 
Sun. 
saw... 
sab. 
ssa .. 
sa. 
16 
Fire. 
o-del-chat. 
con nn. 
kknn . 
koue. 
17 
W ater. 
ic-too. 
tone . 
two .. 
too. 
18 
Stone. 
tliaih. 
19 
Dot?. 
a-nel-wosli. 
sliengli. 
cle. 
cline;,clee-chav (bitch) 
20 
Fish. 
cloo-he-za. 
slooeeh. 
el on-a. 
cloo-lay. 
21 
I. 
she. 
see . 
se. 
22 
One. 
zodeneah . 
slachy... 
en-clai. 
clot-tay. 
23 
Two. 
chellatelle. 
nagliur . 
nak-ka. 
nong-ki. 
24 
Three. 
elthoi. 
tao'h-v .. 
tta-rp’ha,. 
toy. 
25 
Four. 
tenet-thee. 
deimk-v. 
tting. 
tins-kay. 
'• The manuscript of the present paper on Lieutenant Whipple’s vocabularies was delivered to Mr. Whipple in January of 
this year (1856); and now, in the month of May, as it is going through the press, I have received a copy of Dr. Buschmann’s 
learned and highly interesting treatise on the Athapascan family of languages, (Der Athapaskische Sprachstamm dargestellt 
von Job. Carl Ed. Buschmann,) printed in Berlin in the present year. Dr. Buschmann mentions repeatedly (pp. 154, 254) 
that the discovery of the Athapascan relationship of the Apache nation is due to me ; but he claims at the same time, as his 
own discovery, the fact that a similar relationship exists between the Athapascans proper and the Navajos. This claim, 
however, cannot be admitted ; because in the above-mentioned paper, published in the Literary World, I treat both of the 
Apaches and of “ Iheir congeners the Navalioes.” The affinity of the Apaches and Navajos had been repeatedly asserted by 
Spanish and American writers. I need quote only the excellent authority of Gregg. He says : “The principal wild tribes 
which inhabit or extend their incursions or peregrinations upon the territory of New Mexico are the Navajoes , the Apaches, 
