"At twelve o'clock we fired a gun" the Hope and Hancock at Cunneyah ' s Harbor, July 4, 1792 , by Mark Myers
• Steve Mayo, who grew up in the logging town of Longview, Washington, where his father owned a cannery on the banks of the Cowlitz River, speaks vividly of this kind of inspiration: "We had a boat which I sailed as a boy," he remembers. "The river was only a short distance from the Columbia [River] . Longview was a deep-water port, so there were sea going freighters and tankers from all over the world, as well as all the various river craft: tugs, barges, and fishing boats. Huge freighters with their propellers thumping and thrashing water sometimes passed on both sides of my little boat. You could even smell them after they'd passed-the smell of foreign cooking and diesel. "I dreamed of going to sea, of joining the merchant marine perhaps." From age eight, Mayo began to sketch the ships he saw, noticing the differ-
"Both vessels were very fou l, and Captain Crowell and I ag reed to haul on shore and grave . . . Next morning was the anniversary of American Independence . In order to celebrate it in the best manner our situation would admit of, I had-as on my last voyage-a hog of60lbs weight roasted whole on the beach and invited Capt. Crowell and his officers to dine with me. At 12 o'clock we fi red a gun , hoisted our colors , and gave three cheers,
which the Hancock returned. As the Hope was on careen, we dined on shore under a tree near the beach. Old Cunneyah was one of our g ues ts. " - from Jo seph Ingraham' s journal of the fur trading voyage of the brigantine Hope ofBoston. The Hancock, another Boston brig, had come along by chance while Ingraham was lying in a cove in the N. W. Queen Charlottes , nearChiefCunneha' s Haida village of Tadents.
"A most horrible drumming ," the captured Boston in Friendly Cove , March 22, 1803, by Mark Myers
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On March 22 , 1803 the ship Boston was lying up Nootka Sound, her Captain l ohnSalter and the Nootkan ChiefMaquinna engaging in swift trade. After dinner at midday , the chief led his warriors to slay the captain and crew, sparing only the sh ip ' s armorer, J ohn J ewitt. Maquinna knew the value of a blacksmith to a people who craved metal but could not work well with it. Jewitt records: "Maquinna then ordered me to get the ship underway for Friendly Cove . . .. We were received by the inhabitants of the village, men, women and children, with loud shouts of joy, and a most horrible drumming with sticks upon the roof and sides of their houses , in which they had stuck a great number of lighted pine torches to welcome their king's return and congratulate him on the success of his enterprize." Jewitt spent three years in captivity at Nootka .
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