High-bow Chinook canoe—Clatsop, Esquai-ah.
Big tub Chinook canoe—Clatsop, Ska-moolsk.
Small duck canoe—Kah-see-tic(h).
Clackamas canoe—Clackamas, Tse-quah-min.
Even from the above meager list a number of interesting inquiries might be begun, but my object at present is only to make a small contribution along what I believe will prove a profitable line of investigation, hoping that others will add theirs. In this way something will be accomplished toward reconstructing the simple life of our natives, doing them a justice, and discovering, I am sure, what will be a delight and benefit both to the present and to the coming generations of our own people.
H. S. LYMAN.
DOCUMENTS.
All of the following newspaper articles were taken from a single year of the New York Tribune. They serve well to indicate the interest with which Oregon Territory was regarded throughout the country in 1842: