Chapter 6

DEPENDENCIES IN AMERICA.

The Athabaskans of the Hudson's Bay Country.--The Algonkin Stock. --The Iroquois.--The Sioux.--Assineboins.--The Eskimo.--The Kolúch.--The Nehanni.--Digothi.--The Atsina.--Indians of British Oregon, Quadra's and Vancouver's Island.--Haidah.--Chimsheyan.-- Billichula.--Hailtsa.--Nutka.--Atna.--Kitunaha Indians.-- Particular Algonkin Tribes.--The Nascopi.--The Bethuck.--Numerals from Fitz-Hugh Sound.--The Moskito Indians.--South American Indians of British Guiana.--Caribs.--Warows.--Wapisianas.-- Tarumas.--Caribs of St. Vincent.--Trinidad. 224

PREFACE.

The following pages represent a Course of Six Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution, Manchester, in the months of February and March of the present year; the matter being now laid before the public in a somewhat fuller and more systematic form than was compatible with the original delivery.

ETHNOLOGY OF THE BRITISH DEPENDENCIES.