~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._