An old woman Ca-par-a
Young women Way-yun
Little girl Wer-yes
Baby Oaks
Boat or canoe Yacht
House Och-lum-ilth
Come in the house Och-la-may
How do you do my friend I-ya-quay Nec-tor-mer
Me or I Neck
Yes A
Fire Metch
Mother Calk
Father Tat, or Tatus
Grandfather Peach
Grandmother Gooch
Old man Ma-we-mer
Young man Pay-girk
Large boy Che-na-mouse
Small boy May-wah
Mother-in-law Cha-win
Father-in-law Par-ah
Sister-in-law Netch-nah
Brother-in-law Weitch-tay, or Tay
Uncle Jim
Aunt Tool
Klamath river Health-kick-wer-roy
Redwood timber Keilth
Mermaids Squer-tuck
Silver Salmon Nep-puoy
Steelhead Salmon Squalth
King Salmon Ah-pus
Hook-bill Salmon Cha-goon
Grizzly Bear Nick-witch
Sea or Ocean Pis-calth
The Bald Hills we call Cho-lu, contains many hundreds of acres of open
land, high up where one can see as far as the eye can reach in all
directions.
There is another species of the Salmon caught in the Klamath river, the
English name of which I do not know but we call it Ra-gawk.
In the year 1850 my people had never heard of the present white race
and we were then making our fires with two pieces of wood, one the
willow and the other of hardwood.
My mother and father never learned to talk English, so I talk to them
only in our own language.
CHAPTER VI.
DEATH AND THE SPIRIT LAND.
There is a large and silent river that flows through the shadowy vale
of death. On the banks of this awful and mysterious river dwells an
old woman, called Sye-elth, and she keeps at her side a large dog,
Chish-yah, (the common name for dog).
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