of them now inhabits the Reservation of Round valley, together with their former tormentors, the Yukas. Those of the interior show more intelligence and a stronger physical constitution than the coast Pomos. The Cahto Pomos and the Ki Pomos, on Eel river, have adopted the Tinné dialect of the Wi Lakee, which is closely allied to Hoopa. Powers considers as the nucleus of the numerous Pomo tribes the Pome Pomos, living in Potter Valley, a short distance northwest of Clear Lake. The language rapidly changes from valley to valley; but the majority of the dialects are sonorous, and the vocalic element preponderates.
We enumerate the following bands:—Pome Pomos, "earth people," in Potter Valley. Ballo Ki Pomos, "Wild Oat Valley people," in Potter Valley. Choan Chadéla Pomos, "Pine-pitch people," in Redwood Valley. Matomey Ki Pomos, "Wooded Valley people," around Little Lake. Usàls or Camalèl Pomos, on Usal Creek. Shebalne Pomos, "neighbor people," in Sherwood Valley. Gallinomeros, below Healdsburg; a few grammatical informations given in H.H. Bancroft's Native Races, Vol. iii, part second. Yuka-i or Ukiah, on Russian river, (not to be confounded with Yuka in Round valley); vocabulary by G. Gibbs in Schoolcraft, Vol. III, (1853.) Choweshak, at the head of Eel river; Gibbs' vocabulary in Schoolcraft, III, pp. 434, sqq. Batemdikaie, at the head of Eel river, called after the valley in which they live; vocabulary in Schoolcraft, III, 434, sqq. Kulanapo, on southwest shore of Clear Lake; vocabulary in Schoolcraft, III, 428. Bancroft has called attention to the fact that many words of this and other dialects, spoken south of it, correspond to Polynesian and Malay terms, but on account of the uncertain nature of Oceanic consonantism, he is unwilling to draw any ethnological deductions from this coincidence. Kulanapo agrees pretty closely with Choweshak and Batemdikaie, but differs somewhat from Chwachamaju. Chwachamaju, to the north of Bodega bay. The words in Wrangell's vocabulary (see Olamentke, Mutsun) appear to agree more closely with Yuka-i than with any other Pomo dialect.
Wishosk.—Spoken on a very small area around the mouth of the Eel river, on the seacoast, and called so from the Indian name for Eel river. We know of two sub-dialects almost entirely identical, and showing a rather consonantic word-structure. Vocabularies were collected with care by George Gibbs, and published in Schoolcraft III, p. 422. Weeyot, or Veeard, on mouth of Eel river; Wishosk, on northern part of Humboldt Bay, near mouth of Mad river; Patawat, identical with G. Gibbs' Kowilth, or Koquilth; and about a dozen other settlements speaking dialects of the same language.—Proceeding through the basin of the
