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LIFE AT PUGET SOUND
WITH
SKETCHES OF TRAVEL
IN
WASHINGTON TERRITORY, BRITISH COLUMBIA,
OREGON, AND CALIFORNIA
1865-1881
BY
CAROLINE C. LEIGHTON
BOSTON
LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK
CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM
1884
COPYRIGHT, 1888,
BY LEE AND SHEPARD.
_All rights reserved._
PREFACE.
The following selections from observations and experiences during a
residence of sixteen years on the Pacific Coast, while they do not claim
to describe fully that portion of the country, nor to give any account
of its great natural wealth and resources, yet indicate something of its
characteristic features and attractions, more especially those of the
Puget Sound region.
This remote corner of our territory, hitherto almost unknown to the
country at large, is rapidly coming into prominence, and is now made
easy of access by the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad. The
vast inland sea, popularly known as Puget Sound, ramifying in various
directions, the wide-spreading and majestic forests, the ranges of
snow-capped mountains on either side, the mild and equable climate, and
the diversified resources of this favored region, excite the
astonishment and admiration of all beholders. To the lovers of the grand
and beautiful, unmarred as yet by any human interference, who appreciate
the freedom from conventionalities which pertain to longer-settled
portions of the globe, it presents an endless field for observation and
enjoyment. There is already a steady stream of emigration to this new
"land of promise," and every thing seems to indicate for it a vigorous
growth and development, and a brilliant and substantial future.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
PAGE
At Sea.--Mariguana Island.--Sea-Birds.--Shipwreck.--Life on
Roncador Reef.--The Rescue.--Isthmus of Panama.--Voyage to
San Francisco.--The New Baby. 1