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Greenough says that the American traders call this harbor Poverty Cove, but on the 
manuscript chart of the Americans, Gray and Ingraham, I find the name Poverty Cove given 
to San Juan’s harbor, on the northern shore of De Fuca strait. They (Ingraham and Gray) 
call this harbor Fidalgo’s cove. I suppose the name Neeah harbor was first introduced by the 
Hudson Bay Company. 
Wilkes, who in 1841 surveyed the harbor, gave it the name Port Scarborough, in honor of 
Captain Scarborough, an officer of the Hudson Bay Company, who gave some assistance to the 
American exploring expedition; but the little island to the northeast of the bay he called 
Neeah Island. 
To different points or capes of the bay he gave the names Point Hilcome, the Western 
Cape, Newell Point; in the middle of the harbor, Point Lewbough, and Village Point to the 
east. 
Captain Kellet, of the English royal navy, surveyed the harbor again in 1847 and called it 
Neeah Bay. He names the little island, Wyadda Island, Wilkes’s Point Hilcome, Koikla 
Point, and Village Point, Mecena Point. 
The author of the account of the voyage of the Sutil and Mexicana, in his dictionary of the 
language of Vancouver’s Island Indians, has a verb ''ne-as," which he translated by ** salis,’ 
(to sail out.) May not this word perhaps have something to do with the appellation of the 
island and harbor Nee-ah? 
Lieutenant Alden and Mr. Davidson surveyed again the harbor in 1852, and they adopted 
more of Kellet's than Wilkes's names. The eastern cape of the bay they called neither 
Village Point nor Mecena Point, but Baadah Point, because they found out that the name of 
the neighboring Indian village was Baadah. Their interesting and beautiful survey of the bay 
and of the whole section of the south shore of De Fuca strait, from Duncan's Rock on the west 
to Kashu Kuddil Point on the east, is contained in the Coast Survey Report of 1853. 
FALSE DUNGENESS BAY, 480 7” NORTH LATITUDE, 1259 27’ WEST LONGITUDE. 
The coast from Neeah bay sweeps at first a little to the southeast, and turns then with a 
gentle bend directly to the east along the parallel of 48° 18’ north latitude. It forms innumer- 
able little points and bays, of which some were explored and named by the Бонго. But 
False Dungeness, 60 nautical miles distant from Neeah, is the first M of importance. 
The names of the old Spanish admirality charts of 1795, along this section of the coast, are, 
from west to east, the following: 
Emenada de Roxas (the Bay 
Nunez Gaona, (Neeah bay.) and is 
Sutil and Mexicana give for it as the Indian name Isfuat.* 
After this comes Ensenada de Soto, which is called Callam bay in the surveys of Kellet 
and Woods. Then Rio Canil, (the River of Coarse Bread.) Itis called to Uns day Canil river. 
The Spanish officers of the Sutil and Mexicana gave it the original Indian name Chismil.t 
Further: Rio de Ceusto, (the River of Gradual Descent, ) the same perhaps as our Crescent 
bay. The Indian name of this inlet is said by the Spaniards to be Sejachio. 
of the Red Women) is about 24 miles to the east of Puerto de 
probably our Callam bay. The Spanish officers of the 
© Sutil and Mexicana, p. 42. 
; Sutil and Mexicana. 
