The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-13

time. and it was from the bleak west what Is now known as Oregon. Wash ington and British Columbia. The names which these leaders of civiliza- tion in a new world gave to our rivers, bays. sounds and mountains CRainier exeepted) are stiil in use and always will be. For this reason alone the west coast will always remain a locality of absorbing interest to both Canadians and Americans in the Pacific North west.
 'The graveyard of the North Pacific is the sombre but expressive name that was bestowed on the west coast of Van couver Island so many years ago that the identity of the men who named it has been lost, Time has not changed the significance of that name and the harvest of death and destruction of property go on. Big square-riggers ischooners, barkentines, steamers and even men of war have all found com mon grave on the shore of this wild stretch of coast line. A few of these wrecks were of sealing schooners which were driven ashore in fog, but the greater part of them were vessels bound fin or out of Puget Sound. There have been many wrecks and a considerable loss of life along that death haunted region between Cape Flattery and Grays Harbor, but there are so many stretches of beach and little coves along there that dead bodies and wreckage usually wash ashore in a condition that renders Identification impossible.
 With the exception of two or three good entrances the west coast of Van- i couver Island presents no such favor able front to the ocean. Rough, jagged rocks, sharp and cruel in spite of the everlasting beat of the surf against them, extend down to the water edge. and under the surface hidden rocks and reefs, in many places, extend out for miles. On these the staunchest ships ever built are quickly ground to pieces and the unfortunate crew, seeking in the fog or darkness to effect a landing on the adjacent shores, meets with a similar fate. Occasionally a wreck dodges the rocks which guard the en- trance to most of these harbors or coves. and gets in where she can be Identified before she is pounded to pieces. In great many cases, how ever, there is just enough wreckage left intact to excite speculation as to it's identity. but not enough to offer a satisfactory clue to the vessel it came from.
 1 The Vancouver Island Indian seems to have suffered worse by contact with the civilization of the whites than any other coast tribe. The advent of the white man found this island populated by many thousands of healthy, we'll de- veloped Indians, but bad whisky and greater evils that follow in it's wake 1 have caused the destruction of the race, and to-day there are certain tribes, notably along Quatsino Sound, where the cry of native papoose will never again be heard, the youngest Indian in the district or years old. Large numbers 4of. the males have been lost in seal hunting in recent years, and as l the seal hunters have always been the flower of the tribe from physical standpoint the loss to Indian posterity has been severe. In every Indian vil- I lage on the island are numerous vacant huts that will never again be tenanted by the red men, and deserted villages are by no means infrequently met with.
 The destruction of the race which is so largely due to the adoption of the white mans vices, cannot be regarded otherwise than with regret In perhaps lalmost any other part of the west this Iregret would be softened by the know ledge that the passing of the red man presaged the advent of higher civili- zation. Here there is no recompense for the disappearance squalor added inter- est to section of the country where Nature was lavish in her gifts of scenery, but wofully stingy is passing lout resources of greater intrinsic value. When the last west coast Indian passes lover to the Great Beyond, his place will mot be filled by a superior order of be- ling. The respectable white traders and missionaries who now lead lonely lives among them, having no more timber to
 work on, will return to civilization, and the few remaining specimens of man
 will be the cultus squawmen and their offspring, the latter in their develop