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Three of his officers were Peter Puget, Joseph Baker, and Joseph Whidby, whose names now live in Puget Sound Mount Baker, and Whidby Island. The great island of British Columbia, and its energetic port city, received the name of Vancouver himself, and Vancouver named most of the places on Puget Sound in honor of his personal friends.
"Where do they go?" said Mr. Mann one day to Benjamin. The boy told him of a wonderful island, now known as Whidby, where there were great gatherings of flocks of geese in the fall. "Let's go see," said he. "The geese are thicker than the bushes there the ponds are all alive with them there honk honk honk! Let's go see." "When the school is over for the fall we will go," said Mr. Mann.
But, since so many tribes have been swept away by the small-pox, most of them have lost their interest in making substantial houses, feeling that they have so little while to live. North of Whidby is Fidalgo Island, named for a Spanish officer.
He appears, too, to have had a good appreciation of nature, and praised, in his report, the landscape and the flowers. He regarded somewhat, in his nomenclature, the natural features of the country; as in Point Partridge, the eastern headland of Whidby Island; Hazel Point, on Hood's Canal; Cypress Island, one of the San Juan group; and Birch Bay, south of the delta of Fraser River.
Le Moyne, "I was the only blonde in my family, and I have often heard my father say that I got it from some ancestral strain, perhaps the Whidbys, and resembled his cousins." "Yes," answered Pardee, "a Whidby was a common ancestress of your father and his cousin, 'Red Jim. It is strange how family traits reproduce themselves in widely-separated strains of blood."
The great natural divisions of this system are: the Straits of Juan de Fuca, extending from the ocean eastward about eighty miles, and then branching into the vast Gulf of Georgia to the north, and Admiralty Inlet to the south; Hood's Canal, branching from the latter, on the west side, near the entrance, and running south-west about sixty miles; Possession Sound, branching from the east side, and extending north between Whidby Island and the mainland, as far as Rosario Straits; and Puget Sound, connected with the southerly end of Admiralty Inlet by the "Narrows."
The town afterwards took the same name, dropping the h from it. Admiralty Inlet commences here, and was named by Vancouver in honor of the Board of Admiralty for whom he sailed. Hood's Canal was named for another of the lord-members of the Board. Opposite, across the inlet, to the north and east, lies Whidby Island, which Vancouver named for one of his lieutenants.
All went well enough until we arrived off the head of Whidby Island. Here a choppy sea from a light wind began slopping over the scow and evidently would sink us despite our utmost efforts at bailing. When the captain would slow down the speed of his steamer, all was well; but the moment greater power was applied, over the gunwales would come the water.
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