Identifier: bwhisofnwcoast27bancroft (find matches)
Title: Bancroft's Works History of the Northwest Coast vol 1
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Bancroft, Hubert Howe
Subjects: history
Publisher: San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft and Company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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experience to guide him, he did not make muchbetter work of it. At the long bad rapid he says the canoes were continuedone after another by six men and one of ourselves; and though they were butlightly loaded it was with much difficulty they were run down; and throughthe awkwardness of the men mine was run against a large embaras in themiddle of the river which broke the bow and smashed all the pieces to thesecond bar. Fortunately there was not much water in the river, and thechannel was narrow. All hands jumped out and pulled the wreck on shorebefore it had time to fill and sink. Frasers First Journal, MS., 122-3. 1T Sir Alexander Mackenzie seems to have examined the Bad River withattention; for, as far as he went down in peace, he describes it with great ex-actness. It is certainly well named, and a most dangerous place, being muchintersected with large stones, fallen trees, and embaras, and the current runswith such velocity that a canoe, though light, cannot be stopped with poles;
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The Explorers Course. 684 MACKENZIES VOYAGE. Great was the satisfaction of Mackenzie in reachingthis river, the first white man to stand upon the bankof a large navigable stream west of the Rocky Moun-tains, and whose waters flowed, as he was sure theydid, into the Pacific. He imagined it the majesticColumbia thus flowing serenely at his feet; and soEraser thought when he first saw it thirteen yearsafterward, and so continued to think until in 1808 hefollowed it to its mouth and gave it his name,18 It has been supposed that this was the first knownof this river, but its mouth had been discovered in1791-2 by the Spaniards; and in Grays journalKelley claims to have found mentioned a large riverflowing into the sea, along whose shores he sailed, inlatitude 49°, called by the natives Tacootche, whichwas in truth the Eraser, but which Mackenzie sup-posed to be the Columbia. Gray, of course, knewbetter, he having found the mouth of the Columbiahimself. and it is with great difficulty it ca

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