I’ve located a reference to “Se-sharti” tribe in a 1994 UBC MA thesis (Wallace 1993:149) which may help explain or solve the Songhee? terminology problem (see below). I will happily continue to contribute to this ad hoc, online ‘scholarship’. Thanks so much for your insight-fully direct link to Gough’s 1984 book passage by the way. I hope someone is editing them for publication.ĪPM, I agree this discussion is very interesting and fun. And supplemented by Swan’s sketches at Yale. When the boards are dry we will finish the monument.ġ861, April 1st “… finished the monument to Swell.”Īll very interesting. We nailed 4 spars in a pyramid form and having secured them I left and commenced painting. This is followed by a couple of pages of Swan’s investigation into the incident from the Clallam point of view and Makah and sporadic subsequent mentions involving future reprisals and so on.ġ861, March 20th “… I went with him to commence the monument to Swell. Swell’s people then took him and put him into the canoe and put off but In their fright ran their canoe on a reef of rocks and split her in two.” They then started for the canoe and one without any cause picked up a gun and shot Swell and left. He had camped and 4 Elwahs came in a canoe apparently friends – asked Swell for some tobacco which he gave them. and went as far as the west head of Crescent Bay. Webster that he was carrying down to Neah Bay were laying on the beach at Elwa.”ġ861, March 8th “Swell left Old Dungeness about 7 p.m. There is a long account of Wha-laltl’s death:ġ861, March 5th “… report that Swell was killed by the Leah Indians and that the goods belonging to Mr. Unfortuantely, there is no obvious mention of the Swiss Boy incident – it would have been interesting to hear Wha-laltl’s (Swan spelling) version of those events. Seems that he and Swan were friendly, maybe even friends. I went through looking at references to Swell/Wha-laltl. I have wanted to see his diaries for decades, and now I can. – that reference to Swan’s diaries is fascinating reading.

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