What to see in America . it won for the youngbrave the name Yosemite, whichmeans Full-grown GrizzlyBear. The name was trans-mitted to his children, andeventually given to the entiretribe inhabiting the valley. Mir-ror Lake was called the Sleep-ing Water by the Indians. The valley was first seen bywhite men in 1851, when amilitary expedition went thereto negotiate with the till four years later did ithave any more white visitors,and then the flow of Yosemitesightseers began, though the an-nual average in the next halfdozen years was only about ahundred. Not until 1874 werethe first wa
What to see in America . it won for the youngbrave the name Yosemite, whichmeans Full-grown GrizzlyBear. The name was trans-mitted to his children, andeventually given to the entiretribe inhabiting the valley. Mir-ror Lake was called the Sleep-ing Water by the Indians. The valley was first seen bywhite men in 1851, when amilitary expedition went thereto negotiate with the till four years later did ithave any more white visitors,and then the flow of Yosemitesightseers began, though the an-nual average in the next halfdozen years was only about ahundred. Not until 1874 werethe first wagon roads completedto the valley. A few Indiansare even yet permanent dwell-ers in the valley, and otherscome there to live during thesummer. They gather wood, pine nuts, and acorns, catchfish, do household work for the whites, and sit in their cabinsor under the trees weaving baskets to sell to tourists. The ponderous, almost perpendicular cliff. El Capitan, atthe entrance to the valley, rises 3600 feet above the wild2i. (iKX. Cli^vxT Thkp: 482 What to See in America flowers; CathedralRocks, 2600 feet; HalfDome, 5000 feet; andClouds Rest, 6000 the most beau-tiful waterfall at all timesand seasons is the 900-foot Bridal Veil. It isnot inaptly named, forthe breeze catches it andsways it outward andwafts it in gauzy fes-toons from side to side,giving it a marked like-ness to a slender veil ofwhite cloth of delicatetexture. The Indianname for this fall meantthe Spirit of the EvilWind. The Indians thought its influence baleful, theyheard the murmur of ghostly voices in the sounds of itsfalling, they felt the breath of a destroying angel in the coolair that drifted away from it. There was ill omen merelyin passing it. Across the valley is a very tiny waterfallknown as the Maidens Tear. It is so called because it isso far from the Bridal Veil. The upper Yosemite Fall meas-ures 1430 feet, the Lower Fall, 320 feet, and the total dropfrom crest to river, including intermedi
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