Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-28
Come One! Come All!

ploitation of Alaska and Yukon, the
extending Of the worlds knowledge of
the history, growth, resources, COM
merce and tendencies of all the coun-
tries whose shores are washed by the
waters of the Pacific.
The blood of two races of kings ran
in McDonald's veins, for his grand
fathers father, Theodore Mcdonald,
was descendant of the old Scottish
looked to Holyrood instead of West
minister. His mother was Raven the
Beautiful" whose father, Cumcumly,
was hereditary chief of the Chinook.
Reads Like Romance
McDonald's history reads like pure
romance. Archibald Mcdonald, his ia
ther, was a Hudson Bay company fac
tor in the palmy days of that COM
pany when its operations stretched
from the great inland sea that gives
it it's name to the California border,
and from the Aleutian islands to the
woods of Maine.
The father himself was a notable
pioneer, and led this small company of
white men up the Red river to its
source, and across the Canadian
prairies to the sites of the present
cities of Prince Albert and Edmonton.
he finally reached the Puget Sound
country, where his son was born, at
the head of the Columbia river, and
where the father spent most of his re-
naming life.
The boy frequently accompanied his
father on his wild journeys through
Oregon, British Columbia and Van
couver island. He lived portion of his
youth at Fort Colville, near the present
affU Of GnOlrana Of fhn
time at Langley house, another Hudson
Bay post at the mouth of the Frazer
river. He visited Nisqually, where the
first white settlement of the Pacific
coast was founded, long before even
one white settler had staked out a farm
on the sites of the present cities OF
Seattle, Portland or Tacoma.
Indians His Companions
Mcdonald received his education at a
school established at Fort Vancouver
the first white school on the Pacific
coast. Here he studied with his Indian
companions and lived the pioneer life
of the wild. One of his early ex-
periences was the witnessing of a wreck
of Japanese vessel on the Oregon
coast.
On board were a number of Japanese
children, and these were brought ND
with tn other children of the settle-
ment, and Mcdonald played with them
great deal and absorbed from them
all they had to teach, and from them ne
probably got his first taste of curiosity
about the lands beyond the sea.
After finishing his education at Fort
Garry, now Winnipeg, Mcdonald Wis
! tied in Ontario, where he was articled
as a bank clerk in the city of st.
Thomas. That, however, was too slow
for his wild blood, and in 1886 he drifted
to New York and shipped before the
mast.
The ship reached Japan, which was
then closed land, in which no for
eigner was allowed to set foot. Nc
Donald, remembering the stories of his
shipwrecked schoolmates, begged the
| captain to put him ashore, where he
would make 1t appear as II he were a
castaway which Capt. Lawrence Il.
Edwards reluctantly did. The jap
anese, believing Mcdonald to be the
only one OF a ships crew left alive.
while they imprisoned him. did not i'll
treat him. He was kept busy in prison
teaching the English language TO Jab-
anese students and several hours a
day was spent In this manner for many
months.
Pupils Conduct Negotiations
McDonald's pupils were thus the first
Japanese to speak English, and when
some years after Commodore Perry ar