They tell of epidemics that came up the river and laid us low in the devastation of life, thousands of our people would pass away in a single season; they would die so fast that they could not be buried and many of the bodies would be thrown into the river. The only way we could keep the whole tribe from complete devastation by the ravages of these dreadful diseases was to abandon the dead and leave the river and go back into the high mountains and there we built bark houses and remain until the snow and cold would compel us to retreat to the lowlands again. In our mountain home we subsisted on wild game, berries, pine nuts, roots and herbs. Some of our people would have such a terror of the fatal diseases that they would refuse to return to their homes and would brave the fierce storms of the cold winter until they were convinced that all dangers had ceased. In our traditions of the passing centuries many of these epidemics have almost devastated the land of human life. During one of these contagions it was said that the children would go down to the river to swim and would lie down in rows from six to twelve in number upon the sand, as if they were alive and had been placed there by careful hands; but they would be in their eternal sleep, contagion having overtaken them. CHAPTER V. TIME AND NAMES. We have ten months for one year, and four seasons, as follows:— 1st month: Caw-cha-witch. 2nd month: Nan-ah-wetch. 3rd month: Nachk-sa-witch. 4th month: Chaw-na-ah-wertch. 5th month: Mere-i-yaw. 6th month: Cauh-chow. 7th month: Chere-wer-sere. 8th month: Cana-wal-a-ture. 9th month: Cher-mick. 10th month: Wealth-ah-wah. Spring: Key-atch-ker. Summer: Kis-sa-no. Autumn: Ka-yock-ka-muck. Winter: Cah-mah. We lose time in our count each year, so we throw in or stop counting until the time comes around to start again. The Klamath Indians are good in counting and can count up into the thousands. We count ten, and ten hundreds for one thousand. All of our counting is done by whole numbers; we have no fractions. All the women have to count and count closely in weaving baskets in order to make the designs come out correctly. We have astronomers, called Haw-getch-neens, and they keep close observation of the sun, which we call Ca-chine-wan-now-slay. Day we call Ca-chine; the moon, Nas-cha-wan-now-sloy, this means the night sun. English names. Klamath Indian.