A FINE CANOB—THE WAGEH. 69 
his warm soft rays as that the tribes in the arid and sweltering valley of the 
Sacramento should dream of bliss as being far toward the west, hard by the 
coast, where they might lave and splash in the cool brine. 
The Henaggi deserve special mention on account of the handsome 
canoes which they fashion out of redwood. I saw one on Humboldt Bay, 
which had been launched by them on Smith River, and which had there- 
fore demonstrated its sea-worthiness by a voyage of over a hundred miles. 
It was forty-two feet long and eight feet four inches wide, and capable of 
carrying twenty-four men or five tons of freight. It was a “thing of beauty”, 
sitting plumb and lightly on the sea, smoothly polished, and so symmetrical 
that a pound’s weight on either side would throw it slightly out of trim. 
Twenty-four tall, swarthy boatmen, naked except around the loins, stand- 
ing erect in it, as their habit is, and with their narrow paddles measuring 
off the blue waters with long, even sweeps, must have been a fine spectacle. 
The Del Norte tribes have about the same implements and range of 
food as the Yurok. In autumn they consume very large quantities of 
huckleberries, salal-berries, salmon-berries, ete., which grow in abundance 
on the coast. 
In Dana’s American Journal of Science and Arts, July, 1873, A. W. 
Chase gives the following account of the origin of the word ‘ Wogie” (pro- 
nounced “Wageh” by the California tribes), as related to him by the 
Chetkos, of Oregon: 
“The Chetkos say that many seasons ago their ancestors came in 
canoes from the far north, and landed at the river’s mouth. They found 
two tribes in possession, one a warlike race, resembling themselves; these 
they soon conquered and exterminated. The other was a diminutive people, 
of an exceedingly mild disposition, and white. These called themselves, or 
were called by the new-comers, ‘Wogies’. They were skillful in the manu- 
facture of baskets, robes, and canoes, and had many methods of taking 
game and fish unknown to the invaders. Refusing to fight, the Wogies 
were made slaves of, and kept at work to provide food and shelter and 
articles of use for the more warlike race, who waxed very fat and lazy. 
One night, however, after a grand feast, the Wogies packed up and fled, 
and were never more seen. When the first white men appeared, the 
