Citations:clattawa

English citations of clattawa

• 1864, Edwin Mosely, “A Survivor's Account”, in the Daily Chronicle‎^[1]:

  The Chilcootens told him that he had better clattawa and gave him a knife, to defend himself in case he came across any white men.

• 1887, John Harrison Mills, chapter 10, in Chronicles of the Twenty-first Regiment New York State Volunteers‎^[2], page 204:

  The midday echoes reply drowsily, the solitary horseman curses and “clattawa’s” up the road as though suddenly impressed with the idea that somebody is hooking his dinner over the hill[...]

• 1909, Congressional Series of United States Public Documents, Volume 3469‎^[3]:

  […] said we had better clattawa — get out. Some of them talked very fair English ; they asked for a small portion of Hour and a little yeast powder, calling it "yeast powder." They were superior-looking Indians and rodo good ponies […]

• a. 1968, BC Studies, University of British Columbia Press:

  On May 12 the disease was “creating fearful ravages among all the northern tribes,” but the Songhees were on Discovery and had no cases. May 15: “The Indian huts at Esquimalt have been destroyed with fire by the Police, and the occupants directed to clattawa.”