Excerpt from Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Vol. 7 The field work on which this paper is based was carried on as time would permit while the writer had Charge of the Lummi Indians in 1905 and the Quillayute and Hoh Indians in 1905 to 1909. Western Washington and adjacent British territory, as here considered, embrace the Olympic Peninsula, the shores and islands of Puget Sound and Georgian Bay and that part of British Columbia lying northward from the International Boundary Line to the Fraser valley and delta. In general it is a most difficult region in which to do research work of any kind; for away from the trails and roads the fallen timber, underbrush and ferns make the forest such a jungle in most places. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.