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Chapter IV: THE LANGUAGES AKIN TO THE WEITSPEK.--The Weitspek itself is spoken

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at the junction, but its dialects of the Weyot and Wishosk extend far into Humboldt County, where they are, probably, the prevailing forms of speech, being used on the Mad River, and the parts about Cape Mendocino.

The Weyot and Wishosk are mere dialects of the same language. From the Weitspek they differ much more than they do from each other. It is in the names of the parts of the body where the chief resemblances lie.

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Opuscula: Essays chiefly Philological and EthnographicalChapter IV: THE LANGUAGES AKIN TO THE WEITSPEK.--The Weitspek itself is spoken

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