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 Buttons             Cill-cill Steal               Capshewalla Understand          Each-e-chimley To speak            Kep-all-oulaw Great many          Hi-oh Capot               Capawillaughtè The same            Quack-ick-qua Game                Chal-e-chall Handsome            Etoughtey Herrings            Owl-chaus Tobacco             Cay-nult How many whites? Queentshech pasheshiooks?

Besides the foregoing language, there is another lingo, or rather mixed dialect, spoken by the Chinook and other neighbouring tribes; which is generally used in their intercourse with the whites. It is much more easily learned, and the pronunciation {349} more agreeable to the ear than the other, as will appear from the annexed specimen.

Great chief         Hias tye-yea Slave               Miss-che-miss Woman               Tlutchè-men Child               Tunass Good                Tlòsh Bad                 Pishack No                  Wake Trade               Mackouk Canoe               Chippots Very little         Ta-an-ass Balls               Poll-alley Sea-otter           Quatluck It's true           Na-wetkaha