Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of (14785258283)

Identifier: archivesofaborig03scho (find matches)
Title: Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864. dn United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. cn
Subjects: Indians of North America United States
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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-, and generally thecentral portion of his district.—The reservation could at this time be made withoutembracing any land occupied by whites, and yet to include all the requisites forsubsisting the Indians themselves. The tract was selected after obtaining the bestinformation practicable, and comprised the country between Eel river and theMendocino range, extending from the coast up to a point opposite to our camp.This it was believed would furnish sufficient agricultural land, together with thefisheries upon Avhich they chiefly depend. An arrangement was also entered into,with a Mr. Charles A. Robinson, one of the settlers, on Eel river, to plant withpotatoes a few acres of ground for the benefit of such Indians as could be induced<o labor upon it.
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THE INDIAN COUNTRY. 131 Muinhiij, Sipt. li)flt.— Todii) the cuiiip was broken up, and we moved down t(j Huinboldt City. The road, for the greater part of the distance, ran over hillscovered with low brush. It is passable for wagons from the settlement near VanDusens fork, to an erabarcadero on a slough putting up from the bay, whence produceis taken by water. The town, if it may be called so, is situated upon a little plateauof about forty acres, neai-ly ojjposite the entrance, and under a bluff, rising from themidst of a tract of low ground. It contains only about a dozen houses, and was atthis time nearly deserted; Uniontown, at the head of the bay, having proved a moresuccessful rival in the packing trade. Vessels of considerable size can lie close to theshore here; but the place is not destined to any iniportance, at least until thesettlement and cultivation of the adjoining country shall make it a point of exportfor provisions. Humboldt Bay (Plate 43) is probably a lagoon lying