Shoes, n. English, idem. Shoes; skin shoes; moccasins. Stick shoes, boots or shoes made of leather.

Shot, n. English, idem. Shot; lead. Shot olillie, huckleberries.

Shu’-gah, or Shu’-kwa, n. English. Sugar.

Shugh, n. Chinook, SHUKHSHUKH. A rattle. An imitation doubtless of the sound. (Anderson.) Shugh-opoots, a rattlesnake.

Shut, n. English, SHIRT. A shirt.

Shwah-kuk, n. Chihalis, SHWAKEUK. A frog.

Si-ah, adj. Nootka, SAIA. Far; far off. Comparative distance is expressed by intonation or repetition; as, siah-siah, very far; wake siah, near, not far. Jewitt gives SIEYAH as the sky in Nootka, which was perhaps the true meaning, or, more probably, they called the sky “the afar.”

Si-am, n. Chinook, ISHAIEM. The grizzly bear.

Sick, adj. English, idem. Sick. Cole sick, the ague; sick tum-tum, grieved; sorry; jealous; unhappy.

Sikhs, or Shikhs, n. Chinook, SKASIKS; Sahaptin, SHIKSTUA.  (Pandosy.) A friend. Used only towards men.

Sin’-a-moxt, adj. Chinook, SINIMAKST. Seven.

Si’-pah, adj. Wasco. (Shaw.) Straight, like a ramrod.  Of only local use.

Sis’-ki-you, n. Cree. (Anderson.) A bob-tailed horse.

This name, ludicrously enough, has been bestowed on the range of mountains separating Oregon and California, and also on a county in the latter State.  The origin of this designation, as related to me by Mr. Anderson, was as follows.  Mr. Archibald R. McLeod, a chief factor of the Hudson’s Bay Company, in the year 1828, while crossing the mountains with a pack train, was over-taken by a snow storm, in which he lost most of his animals, including a noted bob-tailed race-horse.  His Canadian followers, in compliment to their chief, or “bourgeois,” named the place the Pass of the Siskiyou,—­an appellation subsequently adopted as the veritable Indian name of the locality, and which thence extended to the whole range, and the adjoining district.

Sit’-kum, n., adj. Chinook, SITKUM (Anderson); Clatsop, ASITKO. A half; apart. Sitkuni dolla, half a dollar; sitkum sun, noon; tenas sitkum, a quarter, or a small part.

Sit’-lay, or Sit’-li-ay, n. French, LES ETRIERS. (Anderson.) Stirrups.

Sit’-shum, v. Chihalis, idem. To swim.

Si’-wash, n., adj. French, SAUVAGE. An Indian; Indian.

Skin, n. English, idem. Skin. Skin shoes, moccasins; stick skin, the bark of a tree.

Skoo’-kum, or Skoo-koom’, n., adj. Chihalis, SKUKUM. A ghost; an evil spirit or demon; strong. Skookum tumtum, brave; skookum chuck, a rapid.