PORTER’S JOURNAL. 
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and as many bore the names of the females of my family as of the 
males. The name of my son, however, was more desired than 
any other, and many old men, whose long gray beards rendered 
their appearance venerable, were known by the name of Pickinee- 
nee Apotee: the word pickineenee having by some means been in- 
troduced among them by the sailors of the ships which have 
touched there. 
