Upon this point, even if external evidence were wanting, we might find proof in the Salish names of the seasons (with which the Piskwaus agree), a list which gives us in the months of the _camass-root_ and the _exhausted salmon_ the extreme seasons of want and plenty. MEANING IN PISKWAUS. SALISH. ENGLISH. ENGLISH MONTH. Skwusús Siistikwo ---- December and Jan. Skiniramun Skwusus _cold_ January and Feb. Skuputskiltin Skiniramun _a certain herb_ February & March. Skasulku Skaputru _snow gone_ March and April. Katsosumptun Spatlom _bitter-root_ April and May. Stsaok Stagamawus _going to root-ground_ May and June. Kupukkalotltin Ittlwa _camass-root_ June and July. Silump Saanttllkwo _hot_ July and August. Tshepomtum Silamp _gathering berries_ August and Sept. Parpattllitlen Skilues _exhausted salmon_ September and Oct. Skaai Skaai _dry_ October and Nov. Siistkwu Keshmakwaln _snow_ November and Dec. _The Piskwaus._--"On the main Columbia, between the Salish proper, and the Wallawallahs below Fort Okanagan. A miserable, beggarly people, great thieves. Their country very poor in game and roots."--_Transactions of the American Ethnological Society_, p. 13. _The Skitsuish._--_Cœur d'alène._--"About 400 souls live on the lake of that name above the falls of the Spokan, have no salmon, raise potatoes, and have a tendency to cultivate."--_Transactions of the American Ethnological Society_, p. 13. _The Kawichen_, _Skwali_, _Checheeli_, _Kowelits_, _Kwaintl_, _Kwenawitl_ and _Núsdalum_.--The exact relations of these tribes to each other, as well as their position in the Tsihaili family, is unascertained. Geographically they agree in forming the south-western division of the stock, and in occupying the peninsula (or _acté_) between the mouth of the Columbia, Puget's Sound, and Cape Flattery; where, in the latter locality, they are in contact with the Wakash Klassets and Klallems, and, in the former, with the Tshinúks. Philologically the Atna, as tested by the first known vocabulary of the language, a short one of M'Kenzie's, is closely allied to the Núsdalum. But, then, on the other hand the Núsdalum, Kawichen and Skwali (or Squallyarnish) are by no means so like each other as are the two vocabularies first mentioned. Again, Dr. Scouler gives reasons against disconnecting this branch of the Tsihaili from the Wakash dialects of Quadra and Vancouver's Island, with which he shows that they have at least the following words in common. ENGLISH. CHEKEELI. WAKASH.