The following is of a similar nature, and was obtained under circumstances similar to the preceding. [Illustration: FIG. 48.--Alaskan notice of departure.] The explanation of the above characters is as follows: 1, 3, 5, 7, represent the person spoken to. 2. Indicates the speaker with his right hand to the side or breast, indicating _self_, the left hand pointing in the direction in which he is going. 4. Both hands elevated, with fingers and thumbs signifies many, according to the informant. When the hands are thus held up, in sign-language, it signifies _ten_, but when they are brought toward and backward from one another, _many_. 6. The right hand is placed to the head to denote sleep--_many sleeps_, or, in other words, _many nights and days_; the left hand points downward, _at that place_. 8. The right hand is directed toward the starting point, while the left is brought upward toward the head--_to go home, or whence he came_. The following is the text in the same dialect last mentioned, with, translation: Hui a-qtcí-kua a-xlá mŭn nu-ná-mŭn, am-lić-ka-mŭ´-ik ha-wá-xa-lu-a, I go (to) another place, many sleeps (settlement) (nights) ta-wá-nĭ, tca-lĭ´ hui a-ni-qlú-a. there, then I return. The drawing presented in Figure 49 was made by a native Alaskan, and represents information to the effect that the artist contemplates making a journey to hunt deer. The drawing is made upon a narrow strip of wood, and placed somewhere about the door of the house, where visitors will readily perceive it. [Illustration: FIG. 49.--Alaskan notice of hunt.] 1. Represents the contour lines of the country and mountain peaks. 2. Native going away from home. 3. Stick placed on hill-top, with bunch of grass attached, pointing in the direction he has taken. 4. Native of another settlement, with whom the traveler remained over night. 5. Lodge. 6. Line representing the end of the first day, _i. e._, the time between two days; rest. 7. Traveler again on the way. 8. Making signal that on second day (right hand raised with two extended fingers) he saw game (deer, 9) on a hill-top, which he secured, so terminating his journey. 9. Deer. Figures 50, 51, and 52 were drawn by Naumoff, under the circumstances above mentioned, and signify “Have gone home.” [Illustration: FIG. 50.--Alaskan notice of direction.] His explanation of Figure 50 is as follows: