Produced by Bryan Ness, Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) LIFE AT PUGET SOUND WITH SKETCHES OF TRAVEL IN WASHINGTON TERRITORY, BRITISH COLUMBIA, OREGON, AND CALIFORNIA 1865-1881 BY CAROLINE C. LEIGHTON BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS NEW YORK CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM 1884 COPYRIGHT, 1888, BY LEE AND SHEPARD. _All rights reserved._ PREFACE. The following selections from observations and experiences during a residence of sixteen years on the Pacific Coast, while they do not claim to describe fully that portion of the country, nor to give any account of its great natural wealth and resources, yet indicate something of its characteristic features and attractions, more especially those of the Puget Sound region. This remote corner of our territory, hitherto almost unknown to the country at large, is rapidly coming into prominence, and is now made easy of access by the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The vast inland sea, popularly known as Puget Sound, ramifying in various directions, the wide-spreading and majestic forests, the ranges of snow-capped mountains on either side, the mild and equable climate, and the diversified resources of this favored region, excite the astonishment and admiration of all beholders. To the lovers of the grand and beautiful, unmarred as yet by any human interference, who appreciate the freedom from conventionalities which pertain to longer-settled portions of the globe, it presents an endless field for observation and enjoyment. There is already a steady stream of emigration to this new "land of promise," and every thing seems to indicate for it a vigorous growth and development, and a brilliant and substantial future. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE At Sea.--Mariguana Island.--Sea-Birds.--Shipwreck.--Life on Roncador Reef.--The Rescue.--Isthmus of Panama.--Voyage to San Francisco.--The New Baby. 1 CHAPTER II. Port Angeles.--Indian "Hunter" and his Wife.--Sailor's Funeral.--Incantation.--Indian Graves.--Chief Yeomans.--Mill Settlements.--Port Gamble Trail.--Canoe Travel.--The _Memaloost_.--Tommy and his Mother.--Olympic Range.--Ediz Hook.--Mrs. S. and her Children.--Grand Indian Wedding.--Crows and Indians. 18 CHAPTER III.