Life at Puget Sound (1884) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: n. Port Angeles. ? Indian " Hunter " and his Wife. ? Sailor's Funeral.? Incantation. ? Indian Graves. ? Chief Yeo- mans. ? Mill Settlements. ? Port Gamble Trail. ? Canoe Travel. ? The AIemaloost.? Tommy and his Mother. Olympic Range. ? Ediz Hook. ? Mrs. S. and her Children. ? Grand Indian Wedding. ? Crows and Indians. Port Angeles, Washington Territory, July 20,1865. VTTE reached here day before yesterday, ' very early in the morning. We were called to the forward deck; and before us was a dark sea-wall of mountains, with misty ravines and silver peaks, ? the Olympic Range, a fit home for the gods. A fine blue veil hung over the water, between us and the shore; and, the fir being too heavy for the smoke of the Indian village to rise, it lay in great curved lines, like dim, rainbow-colored serpents, over sea and land. I thought it was the loveliest place I had ever seen. The old Spanish explorers must have thought so too, as they named it "Port of the Angels." PORT ANGELES. 19 We found that the path to our house was an Indian trail, winding about a mile up the bluff- from the beach; the trees shutting overhead, and all about us a drooping white spirea, a most bridal-looking flower. Here and there, on some precipitous bank, was the red Indian- flame. Every once in a while, we came to a little opening looking down upon the sea; and the sound of it was always in our ears. At last we reached a partially cleared space, and there stood the house; behind it a mountain range, with snow filling all the ravines, and, below, the fulness and prime of summer. We are nearly at the foot of the hills, which send us down their snow-winds night and morning, and their ice-cold water. Between us and them are the fir-trees, two hundred and fifty and three hundred feet high; an...