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Show 68 Notes By the Way. as they are reflected back through the blue haze that enshroud them. The natives that live in this section, subsisting 1nostly on governn1cnt gratuities, do not ornament the reservations provided for them, nor flatter this place. They are a squalid, n1iserable set of beings not far advanced in the arts of civilization- poor representatives of a once "noble" race. To a sad extent they show their emulation of the whites, as at every opportunity whiskey drinking is made the chief amusement. Here, as elsewhere, the squaws perform the drudgery, principally that of gathering oysters at the ebbing of the tide. With a sure certainty their sun is declining; they are gradually passing away; a few decades more and the Indian will only be known in story. - ·-- - -- 0 ur weary pilgrimage is over ; we have reached Olympia, the l\Ieca towards which we journierl, and our task is ended. In the foregoing pages we have sought only to keep our record connected, to give only incidental references, and a pas~ing description and summary of emigrants experiences.W e have not held the darkest side out, but if some passages seem visionary let those who so regard them "go see what we have seen," and judge accordingly. Should the task be not too great and the patient reader follow us through a journey of six months in continuance, and our crude sketch of the trip over three thousand miles long, we can only remind them that they, too, have reached 'rHE END. |