4. _The Nutka Sound Indians_ occupy the greater part of Quadra's and Vancouver's Island, speak the _Wakash_ language, and fall into the following tribes-- _a._ _The Naspatl._ _b._ _The Nutkans Proper._ _c._ _The Tlaoquatsh._ _d._ _The Nittenat._ 5. _The Shushwah_, or _Atna_, are bounded on the north by the Takulli, belong to the interior rather than the coast, are members of a large family, called the _Tsihaili-Selish_, extending far into the United States. According to Mr. Hale, they present the remarkable phenomenon of an aboriginal stock having increased from about four hundred to twelve hundred, instead of diminishing. 6. _The Kitunaha_, _Cutanies_, or _Flat-bows_, hardy, brave and shrewd hunters on the Kitunaha, or Flat-bow River, and conterminous with the Blackfoots, are the Oregon Indians whose habits most closely approach those of the Indians to the east of the Rocky Mountains. * * * * * To some of these I now return, since three points of Algonkin ethnology require special notice. _a._ _The Nascopi_ or _Skoffi_.--This is a frontier tribe. Much as we connect the ideas of cold and cheerless sterility with the inclement climate and naked moorlands of Labrador, and much as we connect the Eskimo as a population with a similarly inhospitable country, it is only the coast of that vast region which is thus tenanted. On Hudson's Straits there are Eskimo; on the Straits of Belleisle there are Eskimo; along the intervening coast there are Eskimo, and as far south as Anticosti there are Eskimo, but in the interior there are no Eskimo. Instead of them we find the Skoffi, and the Sheshatapúsh--subsections (as stated before) of the same section of the great Algonkin stock. In them we have a measure of the effect of external conditions upon different members of the same class. Between the Skoffi of Mosquito Bay and the Pamticos of Cape Hatteras we have more than 25° of latitude combined with a difference of other physical conditions which more than equals the difference between north and south. Yet the contrast between the Algonkin and other inhabitants of Labrador is as evident (though not, perhaps, so great) as that between the Greenlander and the Virginian; so that just as the Norwegian is distinguishable from the Laplander so is the Skoffi from Eskimo.