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I also gained but little knowledge of their divisions of time. They have the year, the name for which is the same as that used for summer, and in their year are twelve months, designated, respectively:

1.	Çla-fŭts-u-tsi, Little Winter.
2.	Ho-ta-li-ha-si, Wind Moon.
3.	Ho-ta-li-ha-si-çlak-o, Big Wind Moon.
4.	Ki-ha-su-tsi, Little Mulberry Moon.
5.	Ki-ha-si-çlat-o, Big Mulberry Moon.
6.	Ka-too-ha-si.
7.	Hai-yu-tsi.
8.	Hai-yu-tsi-çlak-o.
9.	O-ta-wŭs-ku-tsi.
10.	O-ta-wŭs-ka-çlak-o.
11.	I-ho-li.
12.	Çla-fo-çlak-o, Big Winter.

I suppose that the spelling of these words could be improved, but I reproduce them phonetically as nearly as I can, not making what to me would be desirable corrections. The months appear to be divided simply into days, and these are, in part at least, numbered by reference to successive positions of the moon at sunset. When I asked Täl-la-häs-ke how long he would stay at his present camp, he made reply by pointing, to the new moon in the west and sweeping his hand from west to east to where the moon would be when he should go home. He meant to answer, about ten days thence. The day is divided by terms descriptive of the positions of the sun in the sky from dawn to sunset.