. Bulletin. Ethnology. 20 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 94 vANcouvea Miss Pipes has been good enough to look up and trace for me the early applications of the name Multnomah as follows: Captain Clark, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, explored about 6 miles of the ; Willamette River but designates the whole river by the name of Multnomah, stating that it was so called from a tribe of Indians of that name Uving on its banks. Samuel Parker, a missionary who \ was there in 1835, appUes the name only to the section which flows down the southern side of Wapato [Sauvie's] Island, a distance o
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 20 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 94 vANcouvea Miss Pipes has been good enough to look up and trace for me the early applications of the name Multnomah as follows: Captain Clark, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, explored about 6 miles of the ; Willamette River but designates the whole river by the name of Multnomah, stating that it was so called from a tribe of Indians of that name Uving on its banks. Samuel Parker, a missionary who \ was there in 1835, appUes the name only to the section which flows down the southern side of Wapato [Sauvie's] Island, a distance of about 6 miles. Dr. Forbes Barclay, a physician of the Hudson's Bay Co. who came to Fort Vancouver in 1837, said it was the Multnomah ij from the mouth to the Clackamas Rapids (about 25 miles). How- ever, the name Multnomah is now forgotten and the whole river from its source to its mouth is named the Willamette. The falls mentioned by Douglas are Willamette Falls, and are situated in the Willamette River opposite the south end of the town of Oregon City, which stands on the east bank of the Willa- mette. Willamette Falls are 28 or 30 miles upstream from the southern mouth of the Willamette River. It is impossible to tell from Douglas's account to what tribe the tobacco garden from which he obtained his specimen belonged. The Nemalnomax (Multnomah), of Chinookan stock, had villages along the lowermost course of the Willamette, notably at Sauvies Island, formerly mentioned as Wapato Island and as Multnomah Island. The language around Oregon City and farther up the Willamette was Kalapuyan. The tribe was doubtless either Chinookan or Kalapuyan. (Fig. 2.) "(447) Nicotiana pulverulenta *(?) of Pursh, correctly supposed by Nuttall to exist on the Columbia; whether its original habitat is here * "This must be a slip of Douglas's, as the only specific name in Nicotiana for which Pursh is the authority is quadrivalvis, Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i, p. ; This footnote and
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