History of Washington, the evergreen state, from early dawn to daylight; With portraits and biographies . their store ^vith their ownhands. In 1849 Hannah bought the general out, he having beenelected a member of the Monterey Convention that framed theoriginal State constitution of California, under which she wasadmitted. In 1849 Hannah returned to Oregon, bringing withhim Mrs. McCarver. They journeyed by water, and a wild anddangeroiis trip it was—worthy of being recorded, if onlj to showthe traveller of to-day, who chafes if the overland flyer is anhour or so too late, what it was to change
History of Washington, the evergreen state, from early dawn to daylight; With portraits and biographies . their store ^vith their ownhands. In 1849 Hannah bought the general out, he having beenelected a member of the Monterey Convention that framed theoriginal State constitution of California, under which she wasadmitted. In 1849 Hannah returned to Oregon, bringing withhim Mrs. McCarver. They journeyed by water, and a wild anddangeroiis trip it was—worthy of being recorded, if onlj to showthe traveller of to-day, who chafes if the overland flyer is anhour or so too late, what it was to change location in tlie fortieson the Northwest coast of America. We are told that They left San Francisco on the bark John W. Decatur,bound for the Hudsons Bay Company station, now the entrance of the Strait of Juan de Fuca (which, itis more than probable, De Fuca never saw), the wind failed, andthe bark was obliged to stand out to sea until the next day, when,running in with a fair breeze, she took a squall at the entranceof the strait and encountered heavy seas, which carried away her. ^?^^^ L HISTORY OF WASIirNGTON. 375 riidiler, iii;i<le a hole in lier slern, niul stove her timber battling with stormy waves for loiii-and-twenty hours shewas only saved by the cutting away oi her miz/.en-mast. Anentrance being linally effected, she got inside, but was forced toanchor and wait for the tfood tide, when she drifted up thestrait, anchoring on the ebb. The second night inside an alarmof Indians was given, and every t)ne was ordered on deckarmed. Upon their approach witliin hailing distance the sup-posed savages proved to be a Cayjtain ycarl)rough, a pilot of theHudsons Bay Companys station, who, sighting the vessel indistress, had engaged a crew of Indians and come to their is needless to say that he was warmly welcomed by the storm-tossed people within the bark. They arrived at the HudsonsBay Coni])anys station after a passage of thirteen da
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