Sending 34-page batch of vocabulary words starting y, m, w, and n. Asks Hunt to review and correct them. Asks Hunt to attend to spelling of certain sounds. Provides extensive details. Also asks for attention to translations. Cannot change spelling conform entirely to Hunt's method.
Asks for more information on gifts given to a chief and what is expected of him in return. Asks if people gave gifts to both brother tribe chief and village chief. Explains, with examples, information he seeks on scenarios of inheritance of names and positions. Suggests that a census of Fort Rupert would be a good approach to answering these questions. Also wishes to know average amount of food that a common family accumulates for winter use during fishing and berrying season.
Received letters of May 9 and 12, along with pages and corrections. Pleased about clarification of correct spelling. Received map of Knight Inlet and plants. Hopes for specimen of hoq!wala and other plants.
Asks if a man given a seat and name in a brother tribe become a member of it or is still a member of his father's tribe. Asks for details of how one becomes a member of Sparrow Society and about hamatsa.
Received letter of October 27. Asks detailed question about position of men in different brother tribes, such as membership of boys in relations' brother tribe, and if taking up a new name means taking a different position or membership. Asks again question about k!ēsō.
Received letter of October 4 and list of names. Asks if it indicates Fort Rupert inhabitants in 1866, and if so, how people succeeded one another in the houses. Asks about question on note from 1900 on whether people who use an animal in their k!ēsō have protection of that animal or can get the animal easily. Asks for information on sham marriages.
