Expedition, and in Transactions of American Ethnolog. Society, II, page 128; the words are almost identical with those of Chocuyem. Talatui or Talantui, on Kassima River, an eastern tributary of the Sacramento, is clearly a dialect of Chocuyem; vocabulary by Dana, Tr. Am. Ethn. Soc., Vol. II. Chokuyem or Tchokoyem was the name of a small tribe once inhabiting Marin County, north of the Golden Gate. Their language extended across San Antonio Creek into Sonoma valley, Sonoma Co. G. Gibbs' vocabulary, published in Schoolcraft, III, 428-sq, discloses the singular fact that almost all Chocuyem words are dissyllabic, and frequently begin and terminate in vowels. A Lord's prayer in Chocuyem was published in Duflot de Mofras' Explorations, II, 390, and reproduced by Bancroft; the name of the tribe living around the mission of San Rafael was Youkiousmé, which does not sound very alike, nor very different from "Chocuyem." Some of the more important terms agreeing in the Chocuyem and in the Mutsun of San Bautista, are as follows:
| English. | Chocuyem. | Mutsun. |
| head | móloh | mogel |
| teeth | ki-iht | sit, si-it |
| foot | coyok | coro |
| house | kotchâ | kuka, ruca |
| white | pahkiss | palcasmin |
| black | mūlūtá | humulusmin |
| I, myself | kani | can |
| thou | mī | men |
| two | osha | utsgin |
| father | api | appa |
| mother | enu | anan |
The supposition that the Chocuyem belongs to the Mutsun stock is greatly strengthened by the mutual correspondence of these terms, but cannot be stated yet as existing on this ground alone, for the terms for most numerals, parts of human body, and those for fire, water, earth, sun, moon and star disagree entirely.
The Chocuyem stock probably included also the Petaluma or Yol-hios, as well as the Tomalo and other dialects spoken beyond the northern limit of Marin County. From a notice published by Alex. S. Taylor, Esq., we learn that Padre Quijas, in charge of Sonoma Mission from 1835 to 1842, composed an extensive dictionary of the idiom spoken in the vicinity of this religious establishment.
Yocut.—This tribe lives in the Kern and Tulare basins, and on the middle course of the San Joaquin river. Consolidated in 1860 into one
