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: Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory British Columbia Oregon and California by Leighton Caroline C - California Description and travel; Northwest Pacific Description and travel; Voyages to the Pacific coast; Leighton Carolin

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At Sea.--Mariguana Island.--Sea-Birds.--Shipwreck.--Life on Roncador Reef.--The Rescue.--Isthmus of Panama.--Voyage to San Francisco.--The New Baby. 1

Two Hundred Miles on the Upper Columbia.--Steamer "Forty-Nine."--Navigation in a Ca?on.--Pend d'Oreille River and Lake.--Rock Paintings.--Tributaries of the Upper Columbia.--Arrow Lakes.--Kettle Falls.--Salmon-Catching.--Salmon-Dance.--Goose-Dance. 63

Colville to Seattle.--"Red."--"Ferrins."--"Broke Miners."--A Rare Fellow-Traveller.--The Bell-Mare.--Pelouse Fall.--Red-Fox Road.--Early Californians.--Frying-Pan Incense.--Dragon-Flies.--Death of the Chief Seattle. 93

Voyage to San Francisco.--Fog-Bound.--Port Angeles.--Passing Cape Flattery in a Storm.--Off Shore.--The "Brontes."--The Captain and his Men.--A Fair Wind.--San Francisco Bar.--The City at Night.--Voyage to Astoria.--Crescent City.--Iron-Bound Coast.--Mount St. Helen's.--Mount Hood.--Cowlitz Valley and its Floods.--Monticello. 124

Victoria.--Its Mountain Views, Rocks, and Flowers.--Vancouver's Admiration of the Island.--San Juan Islands.--Sir James Douglas.--Indian Wives.--Northern Indians.--Indian Workmanship.--The Thunder-Bird.--Indian Offerings to the Spirit of a Child.--Pioneers.--Crows and Sea-Birds. 137

Puget Sound and Adjacent Waters.--Its Early Explorers.--Towns, Harbors, and Channels.--Vancouver's Nomenclature.--Juan de Fuca.--Mount Baker.--Chinese "Wing."--Ancient Indian Women.--Pink Flowering Currant and Humming-Birds.--"Ah Sing." 151

Rocky-mountain Region.--Railroad from Columbia River to Puget Sound.--Mountain Changes.--Mixture of Nationalities.--Journey to Coos Bay, Oregon.--Mountain Ca?on.--A Branch of the Coquille.--Empire City.--Myrtle Grove.--Yaquina.--Genial Dwellers in the Woods.--Our Unknown Neighbor.--Whales.--Pet Seal and Eagle.--A Mourning Mother.--Visit from Yeomans. 165

Puget Sound to San Francisco.--A Model Vessel.--The Captain's Relation to his Men.--Rough Water.--Beauty of the Sea.--Golden-Gate Entrance.--San Francisco Streets.--Santa Barbara.--Its Invalids.--Our Spanish Neighbors.--The Mountains and the Bay.--Kelp.--Old Mission.--A Simoom.--The Channel Islands.--A New Type of Chinamen.--An Old Spanish House. 182

Our Aerie.--The Bay and the Hills.--The Little Gnome.--Earthquake.--Temporary Residents.--The Trade-Wind.--Seal-Rocks.--Farallon Islands.--Exhilarating Air.--Approach of Summer.--Centennial Procession.--Suicides.--Mission Dolores.--Father Pedro Font and his Expedition.--The Mission Indians.--Chinese Feast of the Dead.--Curious Weather. 199

Chun Fa's Funeral.--Alameda.--Gophers and Lizards.--Poison Oak.--Sturdy Trees.--Baby Lizards.--Old Alameda.--Emperor Norton.--California Generosity.--The Dead Newsboy.--Anniversary of the Goddess Kum Fa.--Chinese Regard for the Moon and Flowers.--A Shin Worshipper. 242

LIFE AT PUGET SOUND.

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