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steep-walled. It contains over forty acres. It was on this island 

 that the Quileute Indians had their stockade village in the old 

 times and where they were making a last stand against the ravages 

 of the Makahs at Oape Flattery. The old village site is'to-day a 

 garden. On account of the close proximity of these islands to the 

 shore, they are not safe nesting places. Some Baird cormorants, 

 however, venture to make nests on all the islands of the group, 

 while several species of birds, including a Peale falcon, inhabit 

 Chaa-uh, a few rods from James island. 



The Qmllayute^ Needles group proper lies in a line circling 

 somewhat to the northwestward from Tealwhat Point, a head of 

 land that extends into the ocean about a mile south westward from 

 the agency office at LaPush. These islands, with James island to 

 the northwestward, inclose Quillayute bay to the west of the In- 

 dian village. They are exceedingly picturesque, and range from 

 pinnacle, oval sugar-loaf to flat-topped. In appearance from the 

 agency quarters they remind one much of the volcanic buttes of 

 New Mexico, especially those of the Cabezon group. The two 

 largest islands are each over 100 feet in height, and each has a top 

 area of about an acre. The easternmost of these two, called Keep- 

 soostahl by the Indians, is the higher island. It is unscalable. 

 The western island has precipitous walls except to the southeast, 

 where it runs down toward the sea in shed-roof style. It is there 

 easily scalable. The Coast and Greodetic Survey chart No. 6400 

 calls this island "Huntington Rock," but the Indians call it 

 "Dhoyuatz," a shortened form of Dhuoyuachtal (the catch-petrel- 

 place). In the summer of 1907 the writer, in company with Dr. 

 W. Leon Dawson and a Professor Jones, spent a night on this 

 island. From our observations we decided there were, besides 

 other sea fowl, at least 40,000 petrels on this island alone. The 

 night birds were so numerous that they would knock each other 

 down on us in their rapid flight. 



The Giant's Graveyard, longitude 124° 34' west, latitude 47° 

 30' 30" north, comprises a group of jagged pinnacles of shore rock, 

 ranging from just above the water to an elevation of 160 feet. They 

 number some twenty islands. They represent the last stages of 

 erosion of lower Pliocene (and Miocene) sandstone ledges that 

 were elevated in a previous geological age to nearly a vertical po- 

 sition. The principal rock of this group is called Grhost Rock. It 

 stands out in bold outline. It is narrow at base and higher than 

 wide. It is a cormorant home and is everywhere white with excre- 



2. The Indian office spells the word "Quileute" ; geographers, "Quillayute." 



