Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1863-06-20

/ of impending danger. As storms are also
usually heralded by outcries of the innumera-
bic sea fowl and shrill screams of the eagle
and osporey, there is enough clamor to warn
any one who takes the least notice, that
storm is at hand. and canoe navigation around
the cape must for time cease.
The Indians have summer residences ct
two places on the Cape, where little strip Of
narrow beach affords room for building their
houses. One Of these villages is called Kid-
dec,tbb4 and is situated on the Straits Of
Fucsi ha]f way between Nseeh Baxs sand Es, Z.
tooche Island THS s0thers villagers caned
Archa,vat, and is situated on the Pacific coa1t
two miles south Of the island. There is also
village on Tatooch Island, called Chardi
or Opevecta, the latter word signifying island
In these villages the Indians congregato du.
ring the summer months, to be more readily
accessible to the halibut banks and whaling
grounds, though my impression is that the
change of residence from winter to summer
quarters is quite as much to get rid Of feas
and other vermin which infest their houses.
Here they remain till about the first Of Sep
tember, when they return to their winter
quarters ladened with the dried fish they,
have cured during the summer.
The winter residences are at Ba-a-dah and
Needh on neeah Bay, Wyutcht, at the mouth
of Wyatch creek on the Pacific coast, 1sooess,
a few miles south from Watche, and Hosett
or as the natives pronounce it Hosehth, at
Flattery rocks.
With the exception of the marshy prairie
and swamp between Wyatch and Neeah, and
another tide prairie at Tsooess, the whole Of
the promentory of Cape Flattery is one mass
of rocks and forest, a savage wilderness fit
only for the abode Of the native Indian, who
derives his subsistence almost entirely from
the ocean, cares little whether his house is
founded on the rock or sand, and still less
whether there is any arabic land within .
hundred miles of him--contented to scratch in
few potatoes on some hill side, and looking
to trade with other tribes, or with white men.
for the other nescessaries and luxeries to
which they have accustomed themselves OF
late years. pe E =.
Cape Flattery is a point of historical inter-
est, and near it at Neeah Bay was the earli-
est settlement or attempt at a settlement that
was ever made in this Territory. This was
in 1892, by tho Spaniards, under Lieut.. Quinn
per, who was sent by Capt. Francisco Elisa
the spanish commandant ef Nootka, to explore
the Straits of Fuca, in the sloop Princess
Royal, duty which he performed as well as
lie was able, and returned to Nootka in
in the beginning of August of the same year.
The settlement, however, did not prosper.
nor did the building ever exceed a sort of
fort surrounded by a stockade. The only
remnant of this fort now to be found are frag-
ments of Spanish tile, or bricks, occasionally
dug out of mass of rubbish thrown ovef them
by Indians. which are looked upon as interest
ing relics of an attempt to found colony on
the extreme borders of our frontier, seventy
years ago. There are old people still living,
who profess to remember when this Spanish
i house or fort was built, who pointed out to
me the locality and enabled me some two
years since to excavate number of the tiles.
The information derived from these Indians
relative to other matters relating TO the early
traders is so correct, and corresponds SO well
with the reliable published accounts, that !
consider their information relative to famous
rocks said by early navigators to exist about
Cape Flattery and which these people say
never did exist, to be. worthy of belief. 4. d
The whole Of the headland Of Cape Flattery
is by treaty between the United States and
the Makah tribe of Indians residing there, ~.
tanned as reservation Tor the tribe, not worth
much to b. sure in an agricultural point Of
view but eminently adapted to their habits
aud wants. 1t is tract Of country that can
never be Of any use to white settlers. From
Neeah Bay around the Cape to the w yatch
creek tho perpendicular cliffs prevent the pos
sibility Of q safe landing. Nesah Bay is the
only harbor. South from Wyatch to Tsocess
| the shore consists Of low reef and sand Aete
/ Al. In - Al ~fAl2>
Pacific presenting no landing except fOr "a
noes. or surf boats Of vsry'light draA. 6oesA
from Tsooess the rocky cliffs extend TO Fiat
terry rocks. The only chance Of q safe Ian
ding on the coast from Cape Flattery down,
is at a, small river called the Quillehuyts.
which empties into the oceqn behind some
rocky islands thirty miles south from sIAtseeh
light, aifording an excellent and snug harhor
for vessels of light draft or small steamers.
1t was wise forethought on the part Of
Governor. Stevens when he made the treaty
with this tribe, that induced him to locate
their reservation OH the Cape, instead of at-
tempting to remove them to reservations in
the interior. He saw. that the Cape never
could be Of any intrinsic value 10 white men.
that it was most admirably adapted TO- the
Indians who made it their home and whsss
they can be content. No sane man, would ever
think Of removing this tribe or their reseryas
ton to any other point, for this is In every
way better adapted to their wants than any
other portion Of the coast, and where with
iudicious management, the humane views at
the Government can bs carried out 10 their
fullest extent. know of no reservation
among all that I have visited that il % wen
fitted in every way to be reservation for a