The Adventures of John Jewitt - Part 16
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I-yee ma hak, I do not understand.

Em-ma-chap, To play.

Kle-whar, To laugh.

Mac-kam-mah-sish, Do you want to buy.

Kah-ah-coh, Bring it.

Sah-wauk, One.

Att-la, Two.

Kat-sa, Three.

Mooh, Four.

Soo-chah, Five.

Noo-poo, Six.

At-tle-poo, Seven.

At-lah-quelth, Eight.

Saw-wauk-quelth, Nine.

Hy-o, Ten.

Sak-aitz, Twenty.

Soo-jewk, One hundred.

Hy-e-oak, One thousand.

FOOTNOTE:

[146] Most of the words in this vocabulary are given with reasonable correctness, though the transliteration is somewhat primitive. A fuller and more accurate one may be found in the Appendix to Sproat's _Scenes and Studies of Savage Life_ (1868), pp. 295-309, so that it is not necessary to annotate the present one. Those in Cook's _Voyage_ and in Dawson and Tolmie's _Comparative Vocabularies of the Indian Tribes of British Columbia_ (1884), are short and imperfect. I have a much fuller one in ma.n.u.script.