The Canoe and the Saddle: A Critical Edition

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Notes . An Entrance 1. Indian word for Port Townsend, spelled “Kah Tai” in James G. McGurdy, By Juan de Fuca’s Strait: Pioneering along the Northwestern Edge of the Continent (Portland or: Metropolitan, 1937), 16. . A Klalam Grandee 1. The Duke of York, namely Chits-a-mah-han, or Chet-ze-moka (ca. 1808–1883), later chief of the S’Klallams, was well respected in his time. A peacemaker, he signed a treaty with Washington Territorial governor Isaac I. Stevens on January 26, 1855, ceding most of Puget Sound and the Olympic Peninsula to the United States. At the mouth of Hood Canal, 3,840 acres were reserved, where all the tribes were to settle within one year. As a familiar form of ridicule, white settlers bestowed the name Duke of York. His wives See-hem-itza and Chill’lil received the names Queen Victoria and Jenny Lind; his son, the Prince of Wales. 2. Assyrian king Ashurbanipal or Sardanapalus (ca. 668–627 bc), a favorite of Romantic artists. Lord Byron wrote a tragedy, Delacroix did a painting, and Berlioz composed a cantata about this cross-dressing physician who assembled in Nineveh the first systematically organized library in the ancient Middle East. 212 3. Sans Souci: fine lodgings. Winthrop is being sarcastic about King George’s lodge. Brighton Pavilion, also known as the Royal Pavilion, was built in 1784 and purchased in the early nineteenth century for the Prince Regent. Between 1815 and 1821 the pavilion was rebuilt under the direction of architect John Nash, who employed a mixture of classical and Indian styles that has been named “Hindoo-Gothic.” 4. Originally a tribal group in Afghanistan, the Bashi Bazouks were mercenary troops in the Ottoman Empire. 5. Calapooya: a member of the Indian people of the Willamette Basin including present-day Salem, Oregon. 6. “Because they lack a sacred poet.” In A Defence of Poetry (1821), Percy Bysshe Shelley used this clause in his discussion of poetry and imperialism (part 1, paragraph 21, sentence 165). 7. Fit reward or dividend. 8. Jenny Lind was a Swedish singer (1820–1887) whom impresario P. T. Barnum brought to the United States in 1850 as “the Swedish Nightingale.” Winthrop lived in New York during the same time Lind did. 9. Literally, painted; here, painting or makeup. 10. The state barge of Venice. 11. Nauseous from consuming alcohol. 12. Torture in which a person is lifted off the ground by a rope tying his hands behind his back. 13. A stiff hat. 14. A person who travels about selling books. 15. A “Pike,” as Winthrop wrote in his novel John Brent, is a southern migrant “from Pike County, Missouri,” John Brent (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862), 118. Connotatively, though, Pike was “a byword for all that was ruffianly in the frontier life,” Van Wyck Brooks, The Times of Melville and Whitman (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1947), 76. 16. In the Greenpoint district of Brooklyn, New York, Webb and Bell’s shipyard was the institution that laid the keel for the first ironclad of the Civil War, the Monitor. 17. Native canoes were typically made of the western red cedar, although “pine-tree” in this case might be a common mistake for the Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii). 18. A bugbear or baseless fear, like today’s boogeyman, an imaginary specter used to frighten children. 19. From the Chinook Jargon, siwash derives from the French sauvage, for “forest dweller.” Notes to Pages –  213 . Whulge 1. Soldiered, a loan word from Scots-Gaelic; Winthrop glosses it below to denote “sham vehemence” [37]. 2. Bottle, in Chinook Jargon. 3. Neal Dow (1804–1897), best known as a temperance reformer, was mayor of Portland, Maine, from 1851 to 1858 and originator of the 1851 “Maine Law,” the toughest statute against alcohol sales and consumption in the world. In his day Portland was a center of the rum trade with the West Indies. 4. Winthrop’s “six-shooter” was likely a .36 caliber Colt Model 1851 Navy, a cap-and-ball revolver. 5. The Olympic Mountains of the Olympic Peninsula. 6. German for leader, especially a military or political leader. 7. Painter Michaelangelo da Caravaggio (1573–1610) was renowned for the use of chiaroscuro, the skillful use of intermingled areas of light and dark in paintings. 8. The lazzaroni were homeless idlers of Naples, who lived by chance work or begging, so called from the...