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for the others on the river, who came in great nnniber.s. Astonislied at the 

 vahie of their prize and, hoping to get the whole of the metals which it con- 

 tained, they set fire to the wreck, by which means they lost all. There 

 were copper kettles on the vessels and pieces of money, having a square 

 hole through the center. 



The two surviving seamen remained as slaves to the Klatsop until it 

 was found that one was a worker in iron, of which the Indians began to see 

 the value, when they made him a chief. Afterward the two started for their 

 own country, Avhich, they said, was toward the rising sun. They went as 

 far as the Dalles, where one stopped and married. The other returned to 

 Multnomah Island and married there. He had a daughter, who was an 

 old gray-haired woman when Mrs. Smith was a child. Her own father 

 remembered the arrival of the seamen. The man who lived on Multnomah 

 Island was undoubtedly the one mentioned by Franchc^re in his narrative, 

 whose son, Soto, was alive, and a very old man, at the time of his visit. 



After this, a vessel anchored off Mahcarnie Head [False Tilamfdv], in 

 the bight at the mouth of the Nehalen River. About twenty armed men, 

 with cutlasses, came on shore, bringing an iron chest, which they carried 

 about two miles back into the country, to a spot where an Indian trail 

 crosses a brook on the south side of the promontory. The place was east 

 of the trail and south of the brook. There they buried it between two rocks, 

 letting down another on top, and cut an inscription on the rock. They then 

 killed a man and went away. Some years ago, a party of Oregonians went 

 to search for this box, under the impression that it was hidden treasure, but 

 were unsuccessful, for, although the place is ascertained within a short dis- 

 tance, their Indian guides would not approach it." The incident of a man 

 being killed on the spot is probably an Indian addition, drawn from their 

 own usages. 



Another vessel, having on board a large quantity of beeswax, was cast 

 away on the spit of land to the north of the same river, the Nehalen. The 

 crew came ashore, built a house, and lived peaceably for some time, till 

 they began to take away the Indians' wives. This created an excitement, 

 and finally, when they had seduced off the wife of a chief, he assembled the 

 tribe, and asked if they would let their wives go or fight. They decided to 



