Mountain goat (white), apumachkikiná (mach German guttural).
Otter, emonä̍hs.
Skunk, a̍hpikaieh (ah accented; pi short).
Wolf (common gray), sikkapéhs.
Wolf (prairie), sehnipa̍h.[241]
FOOTNOTES:
[240] Written from the pronunciation of the interpreter Berger, and several Blackfoot Indians.—Maximilian.
Comment by Ed. For Berger, see our volume xxiii, p. 23, note 11.
[241] The words from the Blackfoot language given by Gallatin (ibid., p. 373), are for the most part, incorrectly written. We find, for instance, that in the word pistachkan the copyist avoided the guttural sound and wrote pistarkan. I must also remark here that Townsend in his Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia River, speaks in very exaggerated terms of the Blackfoot Indians. This is due to the fact that his information came from trappers and fur hunters who usually have the greatest respect for those Indians who are their bitterest enemies. On the other hand, what Townsend says of the injustice of the fur hunters towards these Indians is thoroughly justified.—Maximilian.
Comment by Ed. Townsend's Narrative is published in our volume xxi.