IV. TACOMA AND THE INDIAN LEGEND OF 

 HAMITCHOU 



BY THEODORE WINTHROP 



THEODORE WINTHROP was a descendant of the famous Governor 

 John Winthrop, of Massachusetts. He was born at New 

 Haven, Connecticut, on September 22, 1828, and lost his life 

 early in the Civil War near Great Bethel, Virginia, on June 

 ip, 1861. His death was deeply mourned as of one who had 

 given great promise of success in the field of literature. 



His book, The Canoe and the Saddle, has appeared in many 

 editions. It tells of his visit to Puget Sound and across the 

 Cascade Mountains in 1853. In that volume he declares that 

 the Indians called the mountain, Tacoma. So far as is known 

 to the editor, that is the first place that that name for the 

 mountain appeared in print. 



In addition to this interesting fact, the book is a charming piece 

 of literature, and will endure as one of the classics on the 

 Pacific Northwest. The portions here reproduced relate to 

 the mountain. They are taken from an early edition of the 

 book published by the John W. Lovell Company of New York. 

 The edition carries no date, but the copyright notice is by 

 Ticknor and Fields, 1862. The parts used are from pages 

 43-45, and 123-176. 



The author's niece, Elizabeth Winthrop Johnson, of Pasadena, 

 California, kindly furnished a photograph of Rowse's portrait 

 of her famous uncle. 



The large and beautiful glacier sweeping from the northeast 

 summit past the western slope of Steamboat Prow now bears 

 the name of Winthrop Glacier. 



We had rounded a point, and opened Puyallop Bay, 

 a breadth of sheltered calmness, when I, lifting sleepy 

 eyelids for a dreamy stare about, was suddenly aware 

 of a vast white shadow in the water. What cloud, 

 piled massive on the horizon, could cast an image so 

 sharp in outline, so full of vigorous detail of surface ? 



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