heir use. The words _animate_ and _inanimate_ do not
apply; those of _noble_ and _ignoble_, by which the French Missionaries
designated the names of objects in the Algonquin languages, probably
indicate the idea. Mr. Gallatin, in his "Notes on the Semi-Civilized
Nations of Mexico," &c.,[A] mentions the same peculiarity as existing in
the Mexican and Maya, in the former of which there are three different
terminations suffixed to the simple numbers, according to the objects
denoted. A similar distinction is found in the Makak language, and
traces of it, at least, are observable in the Pima. I imagine that by
inquiry the fact would be found to exist in other Indian tongues.
Singularly enough, this feature also characterizes some of the languages
of Micronesia.

[A] Trans. Am. Eth. Soc., vol, i., p. 54.

The affinities of the Clallam and Lummi with the Selish are too obvious
to require demonstration. Indeed Dr. Latham has already classed the
former with the Shewhapmukh, or, as he terms it, Atna, of Frazer River,
the northernmost of the Selish dialects. The term Atna, it may be
mentioned, is improperly applied as a family name to these languages, as
it is a Takulli (Athabascan or Chepewyan) word, signifying, according to
Mr. A. C. Anderson, "strangers."

These two vocabularies were collected, the first at Port Townshend,
during a residence of a few months, the other at Simiamoo Bay, while I
was connected with the N. W. Boundary Commission. Neither of them
underwent more than a partial revision, and inaccuracies have therefore
doubtless crept in. They are, however, sufficiently reliable to afford
the basis of extending comparisons with the other Selish and the more
northern coast families.

Transcriber's Note: For greater legibility the letters originally marked
as _a_ and _u_ have been replaced with ae and ue in the vocabularies,
except where this would cause a conflict with an existing diacritical.

VOCABULARY OF THE CLALLAM.

A.

ABOVE, tsits-itl.

ABOARD, si-it-hwu.

AFRAID, sa-si-si.

AGAIN, hon-ang.

ALIVE, e-ye.

ALL, o-huen'na;
_that's all_, aukhk.

ALWAYS, wut-an-su;
_I always work_, wut-an-su cha-ai.

ANKLE, tsuets-ho-kwi-sun.

ARRIVE _at_, _to_, tuess'tsen.

ARM, tsai-is.

ARROW, yetcht.

ARROW HEAD, _of wood_, katstl;
_of iron_, kuem-tin-ai-in; (kuem-tuem, _iron_.)

AUTUMN, tchin-sot-le.

AXE, s'k[=u]k-uem'.

B.

BACK, _the_, stets-i'kwuen.