- King George is the nickname of S’Hai-ak. Duke of York is the nickname of Chetzemoka.
- May 26th. We started at 5 after some trouble in shoving the boat off the beach, where the tide had left her. As we had the tide with us, we found that we should have no difficulty in reaching our destination (Port Townsend), so we stopped at Marrowstone point and leisurely took our lunch. Starling claimed to be a man of experience, and when we started across Port Townsend bay he insisted that we should sail. None of us were sailors, so we differed with him and judged that the quickest means was rowing. Starling worked the sails for about an hour without any effect. He would not yield, although we laughed and argued, but finally suggested that there was nothing to prevent my furling the sails, if I wanted to.
- 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.
- 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.