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Updated: May 13, 2025
Amongst the Aht or Nootka Indians of Vancouver Island, when girls reach puberty they are placed in a sort of gallery in the house "and are there surrounded completely with mats, so that neither the sun nor any fire can be seen. In this cage they remain for several days. Water is given them, but no food.
"Come here," said Nootka of course in Eskimo as she dragged rather than led her new friend into the boudoir; "I want you to tell me all about your saving my brother's life." "I don't understand a word you say," replied Adolay of course in Dogrib Indian with a look of great perplexity in her wide-open eyes. "Oh! I'm stupid and sorry. I forgot. You don't speak our language." "What funny sounds!
Though Kendrick bought great tracts of land from the Indian chiefs at Nootka for the price of a copper kettle, he judged it prudent to keep away from a Spanish commander, whose mission it was to capture the ships of rival traders; so the American sloop moored in Clayoquot, south of Nootka, where Gray found Kendrick ready to sail for China by September.
It also made her start backward so quickly that she sent poor Nootka crashing against the starboard bulkhead. "Look!" cried the frightened girls, pointing to the mirror. The three Eskimos sprang forward and received something like an electric shock on beholding their own faces.
This time he went as far north as the Portland Canal, past the Queen Charlotte Islands, where he met Kendrick on the Lady Washington. The quarrel at Nootka between the English and the Spaniards was still going on; so this autumn the two 'Bostonnais' anchored for the winter in Clayoquot Sound a place later to be made famous by tragedy south of Nootka.
It was about mid-day when their canoe turned round the headland and entered the inlet near the head of which lay the Eskimo village. The boy Anteek happened to be standing on the shore at the time, beside the young girl Nootka. They were looking out to sea, and observed the canoe the moment it turned the point of rocks.
From Labrador to Nootka Sound the unchecked, uncontrolled will of a single individual gives law to the land. As to the nominal Council which is yearly convoked for form's sake, the few individuals who compose it know better than to offer advice where none would be accepted; they know full well that the Governor has already determined on his own measures before one of them appears in his presence.
In the hundreds of pages of manuscript Nootka text that I have obtained from one of these young Indians the words, whether abstract relational entities like English that and but or complex sentence-words like the Nootka example quoted above, are, practically without exception, isolated precisely as I or any other student would have isolated them.
"Yes, yes; is it not my own country?" Nootka sighed. "I wish I could love my country like you; but your country sticks. Mine melts away most of it every hot sun-time; and it is not easy to care much for things that melt." "But Waruskeek does not melt," said Adolay sympathetically.
Hence, while Nootka recognizes a cleavage between concrete and less concrete concepts within group II, the less concrete do not transcend the group and lead us into that abstracter air into which our plural -s carries us.
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