The Natural History of the Varieties of ManLatham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
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The Natural History of the Varieties of Man
Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Ethnology
2, 3, 4. Four vocabularies from the occupants of the river, about
100 miles to its mouth, _i.e._ of the Puzhune, Sekumne, and Tsamak
dialects. Allied to these and like them occupants of the western bank,
are the _Yasumnes_, the Nemshaw, the Kisky, the Yale_sumnes_, the Yuk,
and the Yukal.
5. A Talatui vocabulary. Captain Suter, a settler in these parts,
informed Mr. Dana, that the Talatui and the Indians just named,
resembled each other in every thing but language, and that the
Talatui was spoken by the following bands:--The Ochek_amnes_, the
Seroush_umnes_, the Chup_umnes_, the Omutch_umnes_, the Sec_umnes_(?),
the Walag_umnes_, the Cos_umnes_, the Solol_umnes_, the Tureal_emnes_,
the Sayway_menes_, the Nevich_umnes_, the Match_emnes_, the
Sagayay_umnes_, the Muthel_emnes_, and the Lopotal_emnes_. Probably the
Chochouyem tribe of the Mithridates belongs to this quarter. Probably,
also, the Youkiousme of Mofras(?)
6. A notice of Major Sand's, in Gallatin,[143] carries us over the
eastern watershed of the Sacramiento to one of the streams of the
great Californian Desert, which have no outlet to the ocean, called
Salmon-trout River. Here the chief sustenance is of a lower order
than that of tribes on the Sacramiento. With the latter it is nearly
exclusively acorns made into a not unpalatable bread; with the former
grass-hoppers or locusts dried and pounded, mixed with the meal of
grass-seeds, and baked.
_Parts about San Francisco._--_a_. A Youkiousme(?) Paternoster of
Mofras, seems to belong to the same division with--
_b._ A vocabulary of the language of San Rafael in the United States'
Exploring Expedition. If so, and if also the position of the Youkiousme
just suggested be correct, further information will bring the languages
enumerated by Dana, to the neighbourhood of San Francisco; for which
parts we also find in Mofras--
_c._ A _Tularena_ Paternoster.
_d._ A notice of a MS. _Tularena_ grammar by Arroyo.
_e._ _f._ The Santa Inez, and Santa Barbara, Paternosters of Mofras.
_g._ _h._ The Severnow and Bodega vocabularies (apparently representing
mutually unintelligible languages) of Baer's Beiträge.
Lastly, in the Mithridates[144] we find enumerated, as inhabitants
of these parts, the Matalan, the Salsen, and the Quirotes, followed
by the statement of Lasuen, that between San Francisco and San Diego
_seventeen_ languages are spoken, which cannot be considered as
dialects of a few mother-tongues. On the other hand, however, in
respect to the three sections just mentioned, Humboldt expressly states
that, whilst they are separated as peoples (Völkerschaften), their
speech is from a single source.
_Parts about Monterey._--The vocabularies of the Mithridates, taken
from the Voyage of the Sutil and Mexicana of--
_a._ The Eslen or Ecclemachs.
_b._ The Rumsen--East of the Eslen. To which add a notice of--
_c._ The Achastlier probably a section of the Rumsen, or _vice versâ_.
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