Well, there was a boy from Kilgard. In them days they used to call that place Semath. That means Sumas. Well, that one boy was left by himself. All his people died. So he went home. And the next morning he made up his mind to come over there and see who was living at Yarrow, where he saw that smoke coming out of a big house where there was a lot of Indians living. When he come there, he went right into the house there. There was just that one girl left, after she had all the bodies put away. So that is the first time he ever saw this girl. So he got acquainted with her. So he got real acquainted, and they married right there. So they stayed together. And that's where the language that the Indians are using started from. They went over to Nicomen, where there was a lot of Indians there. That was the only people that used the language that the Indians are using now, today.

in Oliver Wells, Chilliwacks, p. 40.