, 1888-12-06

OF that name, whose Indian name was
Petumromusmus, which meant yellow
hawk, or eagle"
Taxas, Whitman county, Is Nez
Perce word, which means UNDISCOVERED
rock"
Siwash, Stevens county, is the Chinook
Jargon word for Indian, and Is q corrup.
tion of the French word "sauvage, for
| savage.
kumtux, Whitman county. is Chinook k
Jargon word, meaning to know or under
stand. The Nootka word Ia kommetak.
the Clayoquot word kemitak, and the Tok.
waht word kumituks.
The following names on Puget Sound
were. given by Captain Vancouver on
1892,
New Dungeness. from its resem blance to
Dungeness in the British channel
=, Mount Baker, as a compliment to the
third lieutenant Of Vancouver's expedi-
tion.
Port Discovery, after the name of his
ship.
:, Puget Sound, from his lieutenant of
that name.
Port Townsend was named Port Town
shend, in honor of the noble English mar
quls OF that name.
Mount Rainier, after his friend Rear
hunlral Rdlnler.
Marrowstone Point, because the clay
there seemed to be such rich species Of
marrow stone.
Oak cove. from the few oak trees found
there.
Foulweather bluff, from the change of
weather experienced in its neighborhood
Hazel point, on Hoods canal from the
hazel bushes or trees as he calls them,
found there.
Hood canal, or channel as he named it,
after Right Honorable Lord Hood
Port Orchard, from the gentleman of his
expedition of that name who discovered it,
Vashon island. after his friend, Captain
Vashon, of the British navy
Restoration point, because he celeb rated
the memorable event of the restoration
whilst at anchor there.
Penn cove, after particular friend Of
that name.
Gulf of Georgia and New Georgia in
honor of the king of England at that
time.
Port Gardner after vice.Admiral Sir
Alan Gardner.
Point Wilson. in honor of Captain
George Wilson. of the English navy.
Cypress island, from the abundance of
upright cypress trees found there
Whidbey island, because Mr.. Whidbey,
of Vancouver's expedition, frst circum.
navigated it.
Strawberry bay, from the many excel
lent strawberries found there.
Point Grey, after his friend, Captain
George Grey, of the British navy.
Vancouver also gave the following
namds to the respective places. but does
not give the reason why: Admiralty inlet,
Point Partridge, Deception pass. Point
Susan, Possession sound and Bellingham
bay.
Lieutenant Broughton. Of vancouver's
names to places on the Columbia river.
Mount Coffin, because there were num-
Der of Indian canoes, containing dead
bodies as that place.
Oak Point, from several oak trees there,
one of which was thirteen feet in girth.
Young's river, after Sir George Young
of the royal navy.
Mount Hood, in honor Of Right Hon.
Lord Hood, the same person after whom
Vancouver had named Hoods channel or
canal.
The following additional names he also
gave, but many of them seem now to be
lost: Swaine's river, ker's island,
Point Sheriff, River Poole. Point Warrior,
Knights river. Rushleigh river, Calls
river, Arry's island. River Mannings,
Bellevue point, Menzies island, Baring's
river, Johnstone's island. Parting point,
Friendly Reach river, Whidbeys river
and Chinook point.
Mount Olympus was frat discovered by
Prerex, a Spaniard, in 1774, and named
Mount Rosalia.
He also discovered Cape Flattery, and
named it Martinez. but in 1878 Captain
Cook named it Flattery, because of the en-
couraRing state of his affairs in his voyage
up TO that point.
Destruction Island was hrst discovered
in 1775 by the Spaniard, Hecea, and
named Isla de Dolores, (the Isle of Sor-
rows), because seven of his crew we're
killed there by the Indians. It was after.
wards named destruction Island by an
English captain, who lost boats crew
there in similar manner.
Cape Disappointment and Deception
Bay were 80 named In 1888 by Lieutenant
Meaies, an EnRlishman, though he was
then in command of q Portuguese vessel,
because he did not find the river San
Rogue of Hecea.
Quimper Peninsula comes from Lieut..
Quimper, a Spaniard, who came to the re-
gion in 1880.
He also named the Canal de Lopez de
Haro.
Elisa, another Spaniard 10 1891,
named the San Juan Archipelago Guemes
Island. Tejeda (Texada) and Por Los An.
Relos. or the Port of the Angels. He also
left the names Rosario and Fidalgo,
though he geve to them other places than
those which bear them now.
NJ EELLs.