CHAPTER V.

TIME AND NAMES.

We have ten months for one year, and four seasons, as follows:—

1st month: Caw-cha-witch. 2nd month: Nan-ah-wetch. 3rd month: Nachk-sa-witch. 4th month: Chaw-na-ah-wertch. 5th month: Mere-i-yaw. 6th month: Cauh-chow. 7th month: Chere-wer-sere. 8th month: Cana-wal-a-ture. 9th month: Cher-mick. 10th month: Wealth-ah-wah.

Spring: Key-atch-ker. Summer: Kis-sa-no. Autumn: Ka-yock-ka-muck. Winter: Cah-mah.

We lose time in our count each year, so we throw in or stop counting until the time comes around to start again. The Klamath Indians are good in counting and can count up into the thousands. We count ten, and ten hundreds for one thousand. All of our counting is done by whole numbers; we have no fractions. All the women have to count and count closely in weaving baskets in order to make the designs come out correctly. We have astronomers, called Haw-getch-neens, and they keep close observation of the sun, which we call Ca-chine-wan-now-slay. Day we call Ca-chine; the moon, Nas-cha-wan-now-sloy, this means the night sun.

English names. Klamath Indian.

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.