The Columbia River . than any ofher sex have gone. Later Mr. Whitney, manager ofthe great McGowan Cannery, went up and placed theStars and Stripes upon the top. We said that no earlier human steps had troddenthat beetling height and that Miss White had gonehigher than any of her sex. But if we accept theromantic Indian tale of Wehatpolitan, our statementneeds correction. For this story is to the followingeffect. Wehatpolitan was the beautiful child of theprincipal chieftain in these parts. She loved and wasloved by a young chief of a neighbouring tribe. Butwhen she was sought by her lover in m
The Columbia River . than any ofher sex have gone. Later Mr. Whitney, manager ofthe great McGowan Cannery, went up and placed theStars and Stripes upon the top. We said that no earlier human steps had troddenthat beetling height and that Miss White had gonehigher than any of her sex. But if we accept theromantic Indian tale of Wehatpolitan, our statementneeds correction. For this story is to the followingeffect. Wehatpolitan was the beautiful child of theprincipal chieftain in these parts. She loved and wasloved by a young chief of a neighbouring tribe. Butwhen she was sought by her lover in marriage, thestern father denied the request and killed the mes-senger. But the lovers were secretly married andmet clandestinely at various times. In course of timethe father, thinking the infatuation of the forbiddenlovers to be at an end, gave Wehatpolitan to a chiefwhom he had favoured. The latter kept constantwatch of the girl, and one night he saw her stealingsteathily away, and tracking her he found the secret. > o Xi ^ :3 o - V o O Where River and Mountain Meet 355 of her midnight wanderings. As soon as the newlover had imparted to the father these tidings, thelatter with deep duplicity sent word to the other chief-tain that if he would come to the lodge, all would beforgiven and he and Wehatpolitan would be duly at the happy outcome to all their troubles,the faithful lover hastened to his own, but no soonerhad he arrived than he was seized upon and slain bythe revengeful parent. Not long after this the heart-broken girl gave birth to a child, but her father at oncedecreed that the child must share its fathers this pitiless word, Wehatpolitan caught upher child and disappeared. All that day they searchedin vain, and on the next day, the Indians heard wait-ings from the top of Castle Rock, from which theysoon discovered that the poor girl with her child hadgone to that apparently inaccessible height. The oldchief, repenting of his harsh cours
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