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Show r . . l .1 ·'"sll of 'L Vl'l';.' dt•\itrhtful navnnr. A number or urnts t<'u a ul, • ,r ~ • • \Vhitr cram.·s \HI<~ ~tlsu st•t:n t\) in~ in (\illrl't'Ht du·t·~tJOn~ , 1 l . l t t\•"t ''" tould uot IH'O<'llt'<' an) ol tlH'lll . but nt sur ' a u·t~ l .,. ... . . ']'he ilea!), with whom \V('\ had conta·actetl an mtuua(•y ~~t tlJc falls, m·t· so unwi\Hn[.!; to l<'~n'e us, that th<· mt~n m·t· ohhgrd to tln·ow offal\ tht:i 1• ·lothl~s, in ordm· to reheve thcm-sclv< ·s r .. om thdt· pcrst•<'ut ion. Sunday 27. 'l'ht• wind wa.~ high from thr we ·t w~rd ~1~ l'ing last nigllt and this morning. lmt the weather b~m~ l:ur Wt" continued om· c·dcstial ohservations. Th..- two clucls wl~o r<·mained with us. wel'C joinrd by s<·ven 1 ntlians. who <~am~ m a canoe fl'om hrlow. 'fo tlu.•sc men we were very p<utH'Ular in our attentions; we smoked and cat with them; but some of' them who wrt·c lClll}>t.e<l by the sight of our r;ootls eX})Oscd to dl'y, wishecl to talw lihl'rtic·s with thtm; to which. we were under t ht.· nt.•<•essity of puttiug an imut<•diatc check: this rcstt·aint cli!-plcascd tlu.•m so much, that they t'cturncd tlown the dl·cr in a vel'y ill humou1·. The two chiefs howcvct' remained "ith us till the evrning. when they crossed tho river to th<'iJ· party. B('l'orc they went we 1n·ocurcd fl'om them a ,•ocalJulal'y or the Echdoot, their native language, and on compat·i~ou wt.·t·e suqwis(•d at its tlifli.•rence fl'Olll that oft IH' Enct·~hur ton;.;uc. ln fact. a \though the Echcloots, who Iivr at the ~n~at n:uTows, arc not more thau ~ix. miles from the I~nrrshurs Ol' l'('!.'!illcnts at and above the gn-at falls, the two }>co_plc at'C Ht'}nu·atcd by a hrmul tli!Jtinction of language. 'l'hc .Eneeshurs m·e nuder tood hy all the 1l'ibcs r<•siding on the Columbia, above the ralls· but at that plaee they meet with the unintdligible la.nguage or the Ed1eloots, which then descends the river to a considerable distance. Yet the vadation may po!:isibJy be rather· a deep shade of dialect than a radical tliffe,·cnce, since among both mauy words at·e the 5ame, aml the identity cannot be aecountcd for by su{•posing that th,ci1· neighbourhood has interwovl·n them into their daily conversations, because the same words arc equally fa~ miliar among all the I~'latbead bands whieh we have passed. 'fo all theRe tl·ilws too the strange (•lu<'king m· guthn·al noise whicl1 first struck us is <~ommon. 'l'ht•y also llatt<·n tlw head·· ol' the <~hil<ls·cu in m•arly the same m<mncr, hut we now beooin tO olJsf'J'V(' that the lu.•a.<\s oft he ma}('!,, as well as of the ;.., other ex, al'C su~jccted to this opct·a.tion, wht•t·cas among the mmmtain~ the eustom ha.s couiinell it almost to the f't.~malt~ s. 'l'lw hunters brought home four deer, one gt·nuse, and a squirrel. Monday 28. rrhe ll\OJ'ning was again (•Ool a.ud windy. Having dl'icd our goods, we wct·e about sd tin!; out, when three canoes came from ahovo to visit us, and at the sa me time two others from bt'low arrived for th(' same Jmrpos<'. Among these Ia ·t was an Indian who WOl'() lais hair in a queue, and hnd on a round hat and a ·ailor's jad\.ct, which he said he had obtained f1·om the people below the g1·cat ralli(\s, who bought them f1•om tho whites. 'l'his intcrvi<~W detained us till nine o'clock, when we pt·ocet~dt'd down the rive1·, which is now Lordcrcd with c·litl's of' loose d:u·k colom·cd rocks about ninety ft·t~ t high, with a thin covet·iug of t>ine and othet· small trees. At the distance of four miles we reached a small village or eight houses untll·t· somo high rocks on the ri:,.hl, wil h a small creek on the opposite side of the rive~·. 'Ve landed a1Hl found the houses simihu· to tho e we hatl seen at the ga·eat nanow : on rnte~·ing nne of them we saw a B1·itish musket, a <mtl~ss, and several hl'a.ss teakettles, of which they srcm<'d to he VCI'Y fond. 'J'hcJ'<' were figures of men, hil·ds, and diffcrrnt animals, 1Vhich WCl'C cut and painted on the bo:u·ds whi ·h roa·m the sides of the room, and f.hough the w01·kuum hip of these uncouth Jigut·cs was very rough, th<·y wcr·c as highly c teemed hy the Indians as the finest fres('O<~s of more civilizt'<l people. This tribe is called the Chilluckittequaw, and tJwiJ•la.n~uat;c although sorncwha.tdiff(wcnt ft·om that ur the Jl:(•heloots, has many of the same word , and is sufliciently intelligible tot he neighbouring Indians. We tn·ocure<l from thrm a vcu·abulary, and then after buying five small dogs, some drit'd berries, |