_Locality._--Queen Charlotte's Islands, and the southern extremity of the Prince of Wales's Archipelago.
_Spoken by._--_a_, the Skittegats; _b_, Massets; _c_, Kumshahas; _d_, Kyganie.
_Locality._--N.L. 55°, sea-coast and islands.
_Divisions._--1. Naaskok, inhabiting Observatory Inlet; 2. Chemmesyan, in Dundas's Island, and Stephenson's Island; 3, 4, Kitshatlah and Kethumish, in Princess Royal Islands.
_Locality._--The mouth of the Salmon River.
In M'Kenzie's Travels we find a few words from a tribe on the Salmon River. Their locality is called by M'Kenzie the _Friendly Village_. By the aid of Mr. Tolmie's vocabularies we can now place this hitherto unfixed dialect. It belongs to the Billechoola tongue.
_Salmon_ zimilk shimilk. _Dog_ watts watz. _House_ zlaachle shmool. _Bark mat_ yemnez " _Cedar-bark blanket_ " tzummi. _Beaver_ couloun couloun. _Stone_ aichts quilstolomick. _Water_ ulkan kullah. _Mat_ gitscom stuchom. _Bonnet_ ilcaette kayeete.
_Locality._--Sea-coast from Hawkesbury Island to Broughton's Archipelago; the northern part of Quadra's and Vancouver's Island(?).
_Tribes._--Hyshalla, Hyhysh, Esleytuk, Weekenoch, Nalatsenoch, Quagheuil, Tlatla-Shequilla, Lequeeltoch.
The language of Fitz-Hugh Sound, of which we find the numerals in the Mithridates, seems to be Hailtsa. On the other hand, the termination, _-scum_, reappears in the Blackfoot numerals.
ENGLISH. _Two_. _F. Sound_ malscum. _Haeltzuk_ malook.
English _three_. _F. Sound_ utascum. _Haeltzuk_ yootook.
English _four_. _F. Sound_ moozcum. _Haeltzuk_ moak. _Billechoola_ moash.
English _five_. _F. Sound_ thekaescum. _Haeltzuk_ skeowk. _Billechoola_ tzeiuch.
English _six_. _F. Sound_ kitliscum. _Haeltzuk_ katlowk.
English _seven_. _F. Sound_ atloopooskum. _Haeltzuk_ malthlowsk.
English _ten_. _F. Sound_ nighioo. _Haeltzuk_ aikas.
By Mr. Hales, the Hailtsa, of which he gives a vocabulary, differing in some several points from the Haeltzuk (although the two words are most likely the same), is placed, along with the Chemmesyan and Billechúla in a single section, called the _Nas_ class of languages, and probably this is the right view. The difficulty, however, in these parts is not to connect one tongue with another, but to _dis_connect it from others. The Hailtsa has certainly affinities with the Chemmesyan, &c., but whether these are greater than those with the Atna, Skittegat, or Wakash tongue is doubtful. Probably, however, it is as Mr. Hales' tables make it.