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The next morning I was up at C o'clock and called them, but they 

 heard the wind blowing and thought it would not jet be safe to go 

 around Point Wilson, so they did not get up, but in an hour it had 

 calmed down and they concluded to start ; fearing though that it would 

 rise again (as it did soon after), they rose and started without any 

 breakfast. Keaching Port Towusend they remained there until about 

 noon. Then most of them went 3 miles farther and camped; but the 

 owners of the smaller canoes feared to go across the bay, as it was very 

 rough. 



About 8 o'clock the following morning we again started and to shorten 

 the distance some of our party took a route' where we were obliged to 

 make a short portage. Often in doing this, when there are but few 

 persons along, they uuload the canoes and take the articles and canoes 

 separately across, but this time there were so many along that they 

 were able to pull the loaded canoes across, having first laid down sticks 

 over which they were dragged. During the day there was another 

 race. We reached Port Gamble about 2 o'clock in the afternoon and 

 some thought it best to proceed, but the Port Gamble Indians invited 

 my companions to spend the night with them and partake of a small 

 feast, which invitation they concluded to accept. The feast consisted 

 chiedy of potatoes and rice, cooked in kettles, around which they sat, 

 taking the food out with their large ladles. After dark the women as- 

 sembled in one house and sat down iu two rows opposite each other, 

 singing for an hour or more, accomi)anied by the drnm and the pound- 

 ing of sticks. When this was over, two of the Port Gamble women 

 made presents of from 5 to 12 yards of calico to each of Twaua women, 

 and after 10 o'clock some of the Twanas and Klallams began to gamble 

 and kept up their game until 3 o'clock iu the morning. 



The next morning there was another feast of bread, crackers, and 

 coffee, some of which was carried away. It was half past 10 o'clock 

 before we left Port Gamble, hoping to reach Seabeck, 20 miles dis- 

 tant, by night. But soon after starting we met a strong head wind 

 which grew stronger. Sometimes, especially in rounding small points, 

 we used poles to push the canoes. The Indians seldom carry poles for 

 this purpose, but generally use spears. About 3 o'clock in the after- 

 noon the Indians got tired and encamped, only one canoe reaching Sea- 

 beck that night, and that was the one which belonged there. The rest 

 were scattered, singly and in groups of from two to four, for a distance 

 of about 4 uiiles, and were not together again after this ; but the In- 

 dians were now in familiar waters and no longer felt uneasy concerning 

 the safety of each other. I was caujpeil with a party having four ca- 

 noes. The wind ))lew violently that night, the trees constantly falling 

 near us, and it rained so that it was almost impossible to make a tire. 

 A few had tents, otliers used their sails as siielter, and the rest arranged 

 their mats on poles placed in a slanting direction so as to keep off most 

 of the rain aud wind. About 3 o'clock the next morning an unusually 



