The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1871-05-19
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The softest beauties Of st. George. the
mural majesty Of the Hudson at West Point,
and the lovsliness and variety Of the Thou.
sand lsles. which crown st. Lswrencs's
head, there you have In part Puget Sound.
To &c. her color you must 60 to the "a, and
Of soundinga To get her foliage-whers
can you 60, save 70 hsrselfi To get the
precipitousnsss CT her shores, you must
skirt the north side Of Lake Superior. To
get the suraounting glory Of three perpstu.
ally suow.cappsd peaks overlooking the
Sound, and visible from nearly every part
Of It, you have got to 80 70 Switzerland.
What travel there will be here In about Ave
yeani What . was there viii b among
photographers to get asss into uaaskss wisA
the pictures Of all this pictured bsautyi
Oysters are indispensable to the highest
civilization. Puget Sound hes them. And
In this Sound 10 every variety Of shsll.ash.
San FRANCISCO, while waiting Tor California
to acquire population that shall maintain
her on her metropolitan lsgs, has to eat Inn
ported oysterA They arc brought from
shoalwater Bay, north Of the Columbia
They leave . taste Of copper in the mouth
of San Francisco. Not of such arc the
oysters Of Puget. l heard yssteresy Of .
canoe wrecked on On oyster bank. How
to,thsome would have bsen tho salvage OF
that ''dug.outr'
Charles eumuer's cumming. bird OF the
trop,cs' lives At Cape Flatterx 1ts kind,
infinite In variety Of color and form, loves
the climate and the place. OF the crimes
committed by the Indians, and for which
the panishment OF extinction 10 steadily
trsmpling them of the earth, one Of the
most touching Il the capture aud torture ot
theye lovely little creatures. Sticks smear.
ed with the gluten Of snails are Get up In
the bushes and towering shrubs, where
they hover to feed The humming. birds
are glued to these slimed traps by their
tongues. These admirable products Of Gods
creative art, te.hered by the legs and vasi'
ously tormented, afford sport, - they suffer
and die, to the impossible Hiawathas and
the mythical Uncases of Cape Flattery.
Se.ath.al was the war chief Of the DIVA
mish tribe of Indians, which twenty years
ago numbered 1000. He was man OF
great abilities, and wore the crowning dis
tinctiou of ever refusing TO drink whisky,
and of doing his utmost to avert ito cursea
from his people. Instead Of wiping ou'
the whites of the early settlements, which
il was his duty to his race to do, he VA
their arm friend. Governor Stevens and
the other officers of the territorial oryaniza'
ton highly valued and respected him. The
city of Seattle bears bic name. Strange
superstition !-the dreaded warrior implored
the Governor to change the name OF thu
town, alleging and arguing that for four
teen years sitter his death and burial, It on<
should say, II am going to Seattle" or Il
have come from Seattle" he. the dead Sc
attle, would turn over in his coffin. Th'
chief started for the happy hunting ground
1t Port Madison In 1857 In his eighty seventh
year-probably the lest Of the men on tn
Pacific coast who has seen aud talked Will
Vancouver, the navigator.