and is supposed to be derived from the word for poor, miserable. Mischemas is not Chinook, and is probably not Nootkan.  With the exception of Franchere, whose short vocabulary was published by Mr. Gallatin, and Mr. Hale, all the writers mentioned by Ludwig who have given specimens of the Chinook language, have presented it in its Jargon form, more or less mixed with the neighboring ones, and with corruptions of French and English words.  Mr. Swan, among others, has been led into this error.  The place of his residence, Shoalwater Bay, is common ground of the Chinook and Chihalis Indians, and the degraded remnants of the two tribes are closely intermarried, and use both languages almost indifferently.

Setting aside interjections, common in a more or less modified form to several adjoining tribes, twenty-one words of those given in this vocabulary present noticeable analogies between the Chinook and other native languages.  They are as follows: 

English. Chinook. Hailtzuk and Belbella. salmon berries, klalilli, olalli.

English. Chinook and Clatsop. Nootka.
                                           Jewitt and Cook. water, tl’tsuk :  tl’chukw, chauk :  chahak.

English. Chinook. Cowlitz. Kwantlen. Selish. six, takhum, tukh’um, tuckhum’, tackan.

English. Chinook. Chihalis. Nisqually. deep, kellippe, kluputl, klep glad, kwan, kwal (tame) proud, eyutl, juil. demon, ichiatku, tsiatko, tsiatko. black bear, eitchhut, chetwut. crow, skaka, skaka. oyster, klokhklokh, chetlokh, klokhklokh. game of “hands,” itlokum, setlokum.

English. Chinook. Yakama and Klikatat. certainly, nawitka, n’witka. always, kwanisum, kwalisim. younger sister, ats, atse. road, wehut, wiet (far). barrel, tamtulitsh, tamolitsh. buffalo, emusmus, musmus. coyote, italipus, talipa (gray fox). mouse, kholkhol, khoilkhoil. bread, tsapelil, saplil. needle, okwepowa, kapus (a pin).

The Clatsop (Klatsop) is merely a dialect of the Chinook (Tchinuk); the Cowlitz (Kaualitsk), Kwantlen, Chihalis (Tsihelis), and Nisqually (N’skwali), are severally languages belonging to the Selish family.  The Yakama and Klikatat are dialects of one of the Sahaptin languages; and the Tokwaht (Tokwat), Nittinat, and Makah (Maka), quoted in the dictionary, are dialects of the Nootka (Nutka), of which the Hailtzuk or Belbella (variously spelled Haeeltzuk and Hailtsa) is probably