tahoorowa

Updated: June 24, 2025

Accordingly, they all got safe to land, but had scarcely touched the beach when they were surrounded by the natives, who stripped them almost naked. The name of this inhospitable island was Tahoorowa. In the course of the night, the wreck came drifting to the strand, with the surf thundering around her, and shortly afterwards bilged.

Washington Irving - Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains