Their language seems difficult to be understood at first, not from any indistinctness or confusion in their words and sounds, but from the various significations they have. For they appeared to use the very same word frequently on very different occasions, though doubtless this might, if our intercourse had been of longer duration, have been found to be a mistake on our side. The only words I could obtain, and for them I am indebted to Mr. Anderson[68], were those that follow, the first of which was also used at Nootka in the same sense, though we could not trace an affinity between the two dialects in any other instance. Akashou, _What’s the name of that?_ Namuk, _An ornament for the ear._ Lukluk, _A brown shaggy skin, perhaps a bear’s._ Aa, _Yes._ Natooneshuk, _The skin of a sea-otter._ Keeta, _Give me something._ Naema, _Give me something in exchange_, or _barter_. Ooonaka, _Of_, or _belonging to me_.—_Will you barter for this that belongs to me?_ Manaka, Ahleu, _A spear._ Weena, _or_ _Stranger—calling to one._ Veena, Keelashuk, _Guts of which they make jackets._ Tawuk, _Keep it._ Amilhtoo, _A piece of white bear’s skin_, or _perhaps the hair that covered it_. Whaehai, _Shall I keep it? do you give it me?_ Yaut, _I’ll go_; or _shall I go_? Chilke, _One._ Taiha, _Two._ Tokke, _Three._ (Tinke) Chukelo[69], _Four?_ Koeheene, _Five?_ Takulai, _Six?_ Keichilho, _Seven?_ Klu, _or_ _Eight?_ Kliew, As to the animals of this part of the continent, the same must be understood as of those at Nootka, that is, that the knowledge we have of them is entirely taken from the skins which the natives brought to sell. These were chiefly of seals, a few foxes, the whitish cat, or _lynx_, common and pine martins, small ermins, bears, racoons, and sea-otters. Of these, the most common were the martin, racoon, and sea-otter-skins, which composed the ordinary dress of the natives; but the skins of the first, which in general were of a much lighter brown than those of Nootka, were far superior to them in fineness; whereas the last, which, as well as the martins, were far more plentiful than at Nootka, seemed greatly inferior in the fineness and thickness of their fur, though they greatly exceeded them in size, and were almost all of the glossy black sort, which is doubtless the colour most esteemed in those skins. Bear and seal skins were also pretty common; and the last were in general white, very beautifully spotted with black, or sometimes simply white, and many of the bears here were of a brown or sooty colour.