Beadle, JH. "The undeveloped West, or, five years in the , territories..."

[David Robertson]

(Philadelphia:  National, 1873.)

*Page 757-758:   "When the miners first came they learned that a
Scotchman named McKie had been living among the Klamaths for forty years,
and was very popular with them; hence their first salutation was "Mak a
Makkee?" -- "Are you a McKie?" or good white man -- a question which facts
soon answered in the negative."

More folk-etymologizing?  Who knows Klamath wawa?  Is this a local variant
of CJ?  (Maka=mayka?)

Best,
Dave

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