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"Well, sir, when the Chehalis got to our mill, Skinner, I ordered them to load her with sinkers oh! oh, this will be the death of me yet, Skinner. And we gave her poor dispatch in loading.
His ship was not where he had left her, however, and after an hour's search he discovered her several miles up the Chehalis river. Murphy was on deck, gazing wistfully at the house and wishing he had some white paint, when Matt Peasley came aboard. Even before the latter leaped to the deck Mr.
Any time it's raining duck soup you'll never catch me out with a fork; and, of course, when the boys showed such faith in my ability to trim Hudner I had to make good. "How did you tan his pelt?" Skinner queried. "Easy! While you were away I chartered his steamer Chehalis for a load of redwood lumber from Humboldt Bay to San Francisco at three dollars and a half a thousand feet.
Then she had to lay behind the bar two days longer before she could cross out; and when she got here I ordered her to discharge into the British bark Glengarry and discharging from one vessel in to another is the slowest work in the world. And Hudner he's written me, Skinner, declaring he'll never charter a boat to me again; says the Chehalis lost two thousand dollars on the voyage."
We had pushed on past some good locations on the Chehalis, and farther south, without locating. Should we now retrace our steps? Oliver said no, and my better judgment also said no, though I was sorely pressed with a feeling of homesickness. The decision was quickly made to see more of this Puget Sound. But how were we to see these to us unexplored waters?
The tribes residing in Washington Territory are the Nisqually, Puyallup, and other confederate tribes; the D'Wamish and other allied bands; the Makahs, the S'Klallams, the Qui-nai-elts and Qui-leh-utes, the Yakamas, the Chehalis and other allied tribes, and the Colville, Spokanes, Coeur d'Alênes, Okanagans, and others. Nisqually, Puyallup, and others.
Now, a little past four in the afternoon, she began to sense by comparison the great bulk of the western mountains, locally, the Chehalis Range, for the sun was dipping behind the ragged peaks already, and deep shadows stole out from the shore to port.
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