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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