Besides this, it must be remembered that, in Tolmie's vocabularies, no terms expressive of the different parts of human body are given; and that several names of the commonest objects are wanting, e. g. fire, &c.
Neither have the vocabularies of Wrangell for the varied dialects of Russian America been made use of.
As the lists, however, stand, the author considers that he has shewn reason for believing that the Athabascan, the Kolooch, the Nootka-Columbian, and the Cadiack groups are subordinate members of one large and important class—the Eskimo; a fact which, coinciding with all his other inquiries in American Ethnology, breaks down, further than has hitherto been done, the broad and trenchant line of demarcation between the circumpolar and the other Indians of the Western Continent.
NOTES.
Note 1.
In a valuable paper On the Tribes inhabiting the N. W. Coast of America read a few weeks afterwards by Dr. J. Scouler the following-tables shewed—
1. The fact that the Nutka forms of speech were to be found on the Continent;
2. That the Wallawalla was Sahaptin.
a.
| English. | Tlaoq. & Nootka. | Columbia. |
|---|---|---|
| Plenty | Aya, | Haya |
| No | Wik, | Wake |
| Water | Tehaak, | Chuck |
| Good | Hooleish, | Closh |
| Bad | Peishakeis, | Peshak |
| Man | Tehuckoop, | Tillieham |
| Woman | Tlootsemin, | Clootchamen |
| Child | Tanassis, | Tanass |
| Now | Tlahowieh, | Clahowiah |
| Come | Tchooqua, | Sacko |
| Slave | Mischemas, | Mischemas |
| What are you doing? | Akoots-ka-mamok, | Ekta-mammok |
| What are you saying? | Au-kaak-wawa, | Ekta-wawa? |
| Let me see | Nannanitch, | Nannanitch |
| Sun | Opeth, | Ootlach |
| Sky | Sieya, | Saya |
| Fruit | Chamas, | Camas |
| To sell | Makok, | Makok |
| Understand | Commatax, | Commatax |