. The call of the West -letters from British Columbia . IM N 1 ID HOUS1 N \ 1 1\ 1 GR \\ 1 CH1EI s HOI SE, QUATSINO. To face p. ic6. THE ISLAND 107 ornamentations is the white figurehead ot a ship,the usual conventional female figure. Was il apiece of wreckage washed up on the shore aftersome storm, or was it a trophy carried olY in battle?Possibly some ship exploring this coast may havebeen driven by a storm against the rocks outside. Itsin1 had been abb1 to make the entrance of theSound she would have been sale in any any of the crew survived, they may have spentweary years in
. The call of the West -letters from British Columbia . IM N 1 ID HOUS1 N \ 1 1\ 1 GR \\ 1 CH1EI s HOI SE, QUATSINO. To face p. ic6. THE ISLAND 107 ornamentations is the white figurehead ot a ship,the usual conventional female figure. Was il apiece of wreckage washed up on the shore aftersome storm, or was it a trophy carried olY in battle?Possibly some ship exploring this coast may havebeen driven by a storm against the rocks outside. Itsin1 had been abb1 to make the entrance of theSound she would have been sale in any any of the crew survived, they may have spentweary years in slavery at Quatsiuo knows? I couldnt find any one who had any Imowledg*of the origin of this figurehead, which gsilently across the Sound with sueh a fixed, inscrut-able smile, a veritable Sphinx, jealously guardingits secret. But this while man s totem. Bet up amidst thoseof the red men. conveys a message to us. a messagefrom those brave men who met a watery grave. or worse, thirty, fifty, perhaps a hundred or more years ago. They lost their Lives, but their sacrificewas n
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