Lumping: 4 sources with dollops of CJ
David Robertson
drobert at TINCAN.TINCAN.ORG
Wed Jan 27 19:24:23 UTC 1999
Rogers, John Godfrey. "Sport in Vancouver and Newfoundland." New york:
EP Dutton, 1912.
*page 33: 'It is known to the Indians as "Chinook", "tyee" and
"quinnat", to others as the Columbia salmon, the Sacramento and
King Salmon.'
*page 34: 'The silver salmon, "Oncorhynchus Kisutch," known also
as "Kisutch", "Skowitz", Hoopid and lastly Cohoe, is stated to
attain a weight of 30 lb....'
*page 89: 'On the arrival of the big Siwash canoe, with two
Indians to pole, we loaded up our kit and at last were off on our
trip.'
Patterson, RM. "Trail to the interior." New York: Sloane [Morrow],
1966.
*page 74(?): '[The Tlingits] hated the Russians and the "King
George men" and would gladly have plundered both their ships."
[Time is June 18, 1834, and the reference is to the companies of
Zarembo and Ogden, respectively.]
Simpson, George. "Fur trade and empire: George Simpon's journal /
entitled Remarks connected with the fur trade in the course of a voyage
from York Factory to Fort George and back to York Factory 1824-25."
Cambridge, MA: Belknap [Harvard University], 1968. Ed. Frederick Merk.
*page 96: 'They frequently tattoo the Legs arms and breast but
not the Face; the Ears are perforated all round and Beads or
Hyaques suspended....' [Footnote: 'Hyaque or haiqua is the
Indian term for a species of shells (ioquas) found along the
shores of Nootka Sound and to the northward, white in color,
tubular and tapering in shape like a game cock's spur, and a
quarter of an inch to three inches in size. They were used by the
Indians for ornamentation and for shell money. Their value
increased with size.']
Henry, Alexander. "New light on the early history of the greater
Northwest: The manuscript journals of Alexander Henry [...] 1799-1814."
Minneapolis: Ross & Haines, [1897] 1965.
*page 777: 'The news from that quarter is that beavers are
numerous, but tha natives, who are also very numerous, will not
hunt them; their sole employment is digging roots, such as
commass [Camassia esculenta] and waptoe [wappatoo, Sagittaria
variabilis]....' [Time is December 25, 1813.]
Klahowya,
Dave
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