The Adventures of John Jewitt: Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver IslandJewitt, John Rodgers
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The Adventures of John Jewitt: Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island
Jewitt, John Rodgers
Indian captivities; Nootka Indians; Nootka Sound (B.C.)
Chat-ta-yek, Knife or dagger.
Klick-er-yek, Rings.
Quish-ar, Smoke.
Mar-met-ta, Goose or duck.
Pook-shit-tle, To blow.
Een-a-qui-shit-tle, To kindle a fire.
Ar-teese, To bathe.
Ma-mook-su-mah, To go to fish.
Smootish-check-up, Warrior.
Cha-alt-see klat-tur wah, Go off, or go away.
Ma-kook, To sell.
Kah-ah-pah-chilt, Give me something.
Oo-nah, How many.
Iy ah-ish, Much.
Ko-mme-tak, I understand.
I-yee ma hak, I do not understand.
Em-ma-chap, To play.
Kle-whar, To laugh.
Mac-kam-mah-sish, Do you want to buy.
Kah-ah-coh, Bring it.
Sah-wauk, One.
Att-la, Two.
Kat-sa, Three.
Mooh, Four.
Soo-chah, Five.
Noo-poo, Six.
At-tle-poo, Seven.
At-lah-quelth, Eight.
Saw-wauk-quelth, Nine.
Hy-o, Ten.
Sak-aitz, Twenty.
Soo-jewk, One hundred.
Hy-e-oak, One thousand.
FOOTNOTE:
[146] Most of the words in this vocabulary are given with reasonable
correctness, though the transliteration is somewhat primitive. A fuller
and more accurate one may be found in the Appendix to Sproat's _Scenes
and Studies of Savage Life_ (1868), pp. 295-309, so that it is not
necessary to annotate the present one. Those in Cook's _Voyage_ and in
Dawson and Tolmie's _Comparative Vocabularies of the Indian Tribes of
British Columbia_ (1884), are short and imperfect. I have a much fuller
one in manuscript.
INDEX
PAGE
Aht Indians, The, 19
---- The various tribes of, 23
A-y-chart, Journey to, 193
---- Natives, conflict with, 194
Bear, Capture of the, 164
---- Management of the, 163
Boston, Arrival at, 244
---- Reception at, by friends, 245
_Boston_, The--
Burning of, 83
Capture of, 32, 64
List of crew of, 247
Murder of crew of, 68
Canoes, Description of, 124
Cayuquets, The, 136
China, Arrival at, 244
Celebration, A religious, 205
Climate, 221
Cook and Vancouver, 38
Cooptee, Town of, 145, 168
Death, Indian customs observed at, 173
Feast, An Indian, 80
Fruit, Various kinds of, 162
Geese, Mode of capture of, 208
Herring, Mode of capture of, 171
Hull, Leave-taking at, 51
Klaizzarts, The, 132
Kla-oo-quates, The, 134
Kletsup Root, Description of, 167
Ife-waw, Method of securing, 116
Jewitt--
Birth of, 43
Domestic management, 204
Early life of, 44
Illness of, 212
Marriage of, 201
Parentage of, 43
Proposal to release, 232
Proposal to murder, 214
Reception of, by savages, 70
Received by Captain Hill, 235
Sufferings from cold, 211
Suspicions of, by Maquina, 228
Termination of captivity, 234
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