Produced by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive). INDIAN Methodist Hymn-Book Staylim=Paypa ta Methodist=Ts'hayilth. HYMNS used on the Fraser River Indian Mission, of the Methodist Church, B. C. Conference. to which are appended Hymns in Chinook, and the Lord's Prayer and Ten Commandments. TRANSLATED BY Rev's. Thos. Crosby, Chas. M Tate, and Wm. H Barraclough, B.A., Missionaries. Compiled and Printed by Rev. W.H. Barraclough, Chilliwack, B.C. 1898. NOTES The following hymns are in the Chill-way-uk dialect of the language of the Alkomaylum nation of Indians, who live along the Fraser River, from Yale to the Coast, and on Vancouver Island, at Cowichan and Nanaimo. The Alkomaylum, (or Ankomeenum, sometimes called Stawlo or River language,) as spoken by the Cowichans, is sweet and rythmical. The Chillwayuk dialect is harsher and more guttural. The Nanaimos, the Yales, the Sumas, the Kwantuls, etc. of B.C., and the Nooksaks of Wash., U.S.A., each speak a slightly different dialect of the same language. ==> PRONUNCIATION. _`_ When before k, sound the letter by pressing the back of the tongue against the soft palate, and expelling the letter with a clicking sound. When before t, ts, or tz, press the tip of the tongue against the hard palate, and expel the sound as before. _kh_, Is sounded by lightly pressing the back of the tongue against the soft palate, and emitting the sound in a slurring manner. _tl_, and _lth_, Are sounded by pressing the tip of the tongue against the hard palate and emit as in kh. _a_, Is pronounced ah; while all others are regular as in English. T.C., C.M.T., and W.H.B., at the end of each hymn, are the initials of the translators. Ts'hayilth Staylim 1 ARISE MY SOUL ARISE. Canadian Hymnal No. 72. ALKOMAYLUM 1 Whee talswal skwi-la-wal whee, Wheesit ta kul see-see; Ta sat-see-ul Jesus Aylakut telth-le-melth: Tokla tl'khaylikh ska ta See-am, S'khayl talswal skwikh lay ta tchalikhs. T.C.