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[235] Opposite the present City of Seattle and near the entrance to Port Blakeley.
[236] Chief Seattle, then a boy of about six years, was undoubtedly with the natives mentioned.
[237] When Captain Vancouver rejoined the party he reviewed the work of his lieutenants and wrote upon his chart in honor of the quality of that work the well known name of "Puget's Sound." Puget had gone on one side and he, himself, had gone on another side of a large body of land which he called Vashon Island, in honor of Captain James Vashon of the British navy.
[238] On that shore there now stands the beautiful and prosperous City of Everett.
[239] Just south of Semiahmoo Bay on which stands the City of Blaine.
[240] During this cruise Whidby had found a narrow passage connecting with Port Gardner. Vancouver called it Deception Pass and he gave Whidby's name to the large island thus made known.
[241] Vancouver's boat expedition had traversed much of the waterway between Vancouver Island and the mainland. The Spaniards reported the probability of a large river. Vancouver declared it impossible. Later the Fraser River was discovered from the land side and traced to its mouth where the Spaniards had thought it to be.
[242] William Robert Broughton was associated with Vancouver as commander of the armed tender Chatham on which consort this journal written.
[243] Reference is here made to the red fir, which has been called by many names from the first time the trees were seen to the present time.
[244] From sketches published by Vancouver, the present editor was able to locate the site of this house or fort in 1803 and several fragments of Spanish tile-like bricks were found where the foundation corners had rested.