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their accounts. Lakh-kanam, father of the Duke of York, the S'khilhmi 

 chief, and apparently a very old man, informed me that he was about the 

 age of a boy whom he pointed out, or some ten years when they first 

 amved. This he said had only one stick, mast, and was jjrobably the 

 Washington, Captain Kendrick, which entered in 1789, or the Princess Royal 

 (Spanish), Lieutenant Quimper, in 1790. The Indians thought it was Do- 

 kwe-butl, for they knew nothing of the kwa-neh-tum, or white man, and 

 they feared lest some great sickness should follow. The vessel came wp to 

 New Dungeness and anchored. The old men and women went out and 

 called Dokwebutl! Dokwebutl! The chiefs said to one another that they 

 ought not to be afraid, and they accordingly washed, oiled, and painted 

 their faces as when making tamalm-ous, thinking to please Dokwebutl. 

 They all went out in their canoes to the ship, when one man, a sailor, 

 motioned to them not to come near till they had washed the paint from their 

 faces. They went astern and did so, and then all were admitted to the 

 ship ; but Lakh-kanam, who was small and afraid, did not go. The sailors 

 got into his canoe, and wanted to try and paddle it, and he cried till Hai- 

 ya-watst, General Pierce's father, who is still living, and older than himself, 

 came down into the canoe and told him not to cry. Some one, he supposes 

 the captain, then made them all presents of buttons and knives. The cap- 

 tain wanted afterward to buy one of the dog's-hair blankets and one of 

 cedar bark. He had nothing at this time to trade with except buttons, 

 knives, and sheathing-copper, and the shell called sea-ear {Ealiotis). He 

 traded these things for curiosities. About a year or a year and a half after, 

 a tlu-ee-masted and a two-masted vessel came in. Neither of them went 

 farther up than Port Discovery. The two-masted vessel traded them iron 

 hoops and broken iron ; they bought deer- and elk-skins, and gave from 

 eight to twelve small blankets ! or a musket for one skin ! They also sold 

 shot and powder. When the captain had done trading, he gave away knives, 

 looking-glasses, and other small articles as presents. 



Lakh-kanam's remembrance of prices is probably very much exagger- 

 ated by distance, the good old times being a golden age with the Indians 

 also; but the narative is probably substantially accurate. When he had 

 grown up and got a wife, two more ships came. Several had touched at 



