58 NORTHWESTERN BOUNDARY OF UNITED STATES. [bull, 174. 
INDIAN NAMES. 
In the prosecution of the survey considerable attention was given to 
the language of the native tribes along the line. George Gibbs, who 
accompanied the party, is referred to in various capacities as geologist, 
ethnologist, guide, interpreter, and naturalist. The first Chinook 
dictionary is said to have been prepared by him, and this was to form 
a part of the final report of the survey. Later Mr. Gibbs was engaged 
by the Smithsonian Institution in elaborating linguistic material from 
the tribes of the Northwest. This work was unfinished at the time of 
his death in April, 1873. Some of it has been published since. To 
secure uniformity in the spelling of the names of various camps and 
stations Mr. Gibbs prepared lists which were submitted to General 
Parke and made official. There are three such lists among the papers. 
The first two are signed; the third is not signed. The first list is as 
follows: 
Adopted spelling of the names of camps, etc. 
[Official: John G. Parke, chief astronomer and surveyor.] 
Chiloweyuck. Semiahmoo. 
Chuch-che-hum. Sen-eh-say. 
En-saaw-kwatch. Similkameen. 
Fraser. Skagit. 
La-yome-sin. Sumass. 
Nooksahk. Swehl-tcha. 
Okinakane. Tummeahai. 
Pehosie. 
The three lists have been combined, arranged, studied in company 
with the published maps of the boundary and later official maps. The 
results are here given with notes derived from such comparison and 
study. For easy reference on the maps the approximate longitudes 
are given. 
Approximate 
longitude. 
A-kam-i-na; 1 east fork of Kish-e-nehn Creek. 
A-kin-is-sahtl ; Flathead River 
A-kin-kwo-nah-ki; 2 branch of Flathead River heading with 
Tobacco River 
114 10 
114 30 
114 30 
Ak-kaph-kleh; falls of the Kootenay River, Flathead County, 
Montana 115 45 
Ak-o-no-ho; creek tributary to Tobacco River 3 j 115 05 
Ak-sw&k; creek from south at bend of the Kootenay 4 ! 115 15 
I 
1 Kam-i-na= watershed. 
2 Perhaps this is Yokinikah Creek of the Land Office map of Montana. 
3 Tobacco River=Grave Creek of Land Office map of Montana. 
4 Not named on boundary map; apparently Fisher Creek of Land Office map of Montana, and 
Masula River of official map of British Columbia, 1895. 
