The trees were splendid, junipers thirty feet in circumference in their trunks and two or three hundred feet high.

Mosquitoes, however, were in clouds.

Nearer to the coast the Indians often appeared in the distance like white men, for the very literal reason that they had covered their skins with white paint.

Their houses were built of cedar planks, and were six hundred and forty feet long by sixty feet broad, all under one roof, but of course separated into a great number of partitions for different families.

On the outside the boards (as Mackenzie had noticed) were carved with figures of men, beasts, and birds as large as life.