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[87] A specimen of one of their war-songs will be found at the end of this work.
[88] This was not the case. Any free-born native, provided he had the means, could own a slave.
[89] This is largely a tale of the past.
[90] It is questionable if there are now as many people in the whole tribe. Cook estimated the population of Friendly Cove at two thousand.
[91] This is wrong. The Kla-iz-zarts (Klahosahts) live north of Nootka Sound.
[92] In Meares's time (1788) Wickinninish was regarded as the most powerful chief, next to Maquina or Maquilla, as he calls him. His residence was usually at "Port Cox" (Clayoquat Sound), but his territory extended as far south as Nettinaht, his subjects comprising thirteen thousand people. Meares does not fall into Jewitt's blunder of confounding the name of the chief with that of his tribe. But Meares derived his information first hand, while Jewitt obtained it merely from hearsay, never having visited any other part except the immediate vicinity of Nootka Sound.
[93] Klayoquahts. They have now barely two hundred warriors.
[94] Hishquahts. If they have twenty men, that is all. Thirty years ago they had only thirty adult males.
[95] Ayhuttisahts. Thirty years ago they had thirty-six men fit to fight.
[96] Ky-yoh-quahts. In 1860 they numbered two hundred and thirty adult men.
[97] Namely, the Kwakiool spoken on the east and north coasts of Vancouver Island from Comox northwards.
[98] These implements have fallen out of use.
[99] The salal (Gaultheria Shallon), which forms a carpet to the ground, especially where the soil is poor.
[100] The bulb of a pretty blue lily (Gamassia esculenta), well known all over North-West America as the "gamass" or "kamass." The digging and storing of it in summer form one of the most picturesque of Indian occupations. The gamass camps are always lively, and the skill and industry which a girl displays in this important part of her future duties are carefully noted by the young men in search of wives.