INDIANS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.

to their actual solution. Our. investigations are every where hampered by a lack of accu-

rate knowledge, sometimes even by that of any knowledge.
The only conclusions at which we have arrived are these: that the ethnography of

the inland tribes and of those inhabiting the northern and southern parts of the coast
must be studied before we can solve the question as to the origin of Northwest American
culture, and that the latter has had its origin in three different regions and among three
- different peoples. | :

Nors.—In explanation of some of the above phonetic equivalents :—

e(ital.) = ein“ answer.”
k = a deep guttural. |

q = == German ch in “ Bach.
h (ital.) == German eh in “ic
tl = == _ exploded I.

¢ == thin “thin.”

Sec. I], 1888. 8.