- We rowed across in an hour and landed on the beach at Hasting’s store. I expected to get information at this point in regard to violations of the intercourse, but like all rumors, the location shifts, as you seem to approach it. I am told that the depredations and violations of the law were not committed here, but elsewhere. There are many Indian lodges on the sandspit, but their inmates have gone fishing. I shall stay over a day or two, however, and see what I can learn.
- The only two houses belonging to white men are the store and a boarding house kept by an old sea captain. The rest are Indian huts, built of slabs of cedar, and lined with mats. They belong to King George, the Duke of York and their retinue. We met Mr. Hastings, a justice of the peace, his clerk, a Mr. Plummer, and Mr. Pettigrew, a man who has formerly been very rich in Oregon.
- They have located claims near here and are living on them with their families waiting for a town to grow up. We walked over to their property, which certainly exceeds anything in Washington or Oregon for beauty and fertility, if they were only disposed to farm. The Olympic range cannot be more than thirty miles to the west. Mount Baker is on the east, and below us lies the harbor [Port Townsend Bay]. Vivid stretches of lawn interrupt the woods and appear on the headlands and islands.
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
Matthew 7:17 KJV