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Cape Flattery before the first came to New Dungeness. They came ashore 

 at once, and put up a tent, and many of the Klallam came to see her. The 

 name of one captain was Leh's and the other Paput. That of another still 

 was Kelalimuk. They always wanted skins from the Indians. The Indians 

 had no beaver, but elk, deer, and sea-otter. For a large sea-otter they gave 

 twenty blankets. They also bought haikwa for blankets, five fathoms for 

 a blanket. These blankets were diff'erent from the first, being heavier. 

 The last two vessels only came up to Port Discovery. He thought they 

 then went to Klyokwot. It was afterward that ships came up the Sound. 

 For some time, a good many came, and then they stopped. The name of 

 the captains given by him cannot be recognized, and very possibly were of 

 Indian bestowal. It would seem to indicate that several trading-vessels had 

 passed up the straits before Vancouver; but there is some confusion as to 

 times, if the sloop was Gray's, as he could not have come up in the interim. 

 Ijiikh-kanam also recollects when the white people (the Russians) lived in 

 a house at Neeah Bay. lie was then grown up. A vessel was lost there, 

 and the Makah plundered her and behaved badly. The house was only a 

 tent. He knew nothing of a stone house, such as the adobe building erected 

 by the Spainards. 



Winapat, or, as he is called by the whites, Bonaparte, one of the old 

 Snokomish chiefs, informed me that the first ship came up only as far as 

 Wliidbey Island. Until then a piece of iron, as long as one's finger, Avas 

 worth two slaves. That ship brought it to them directly. When he was a 

 very small boy, two ships came, one of which stopped in the Klallam country, 

 and the other went up to the Puyallup. They carried off a chief, Tsee- 

 shishten. In this, also, there is probably some error, if the ships were 

 Vancouver's, as he makes no mention of taking away any Indians. 



