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for husbands and sons, but not for them, their strength being spent!

The place where the pioneers of Seattle first landed was on the west side of the peninsula which encloses Elliot Bay, and

this point they called by the Indian word Alki, which signifies " by and by." .Here was laid out a town, called New York: but a chief of the Duamish tribe of Indians informing them during the winter of a pass in the mountains to the east, and other matters of interest, they decided to remove to the mainland, and, in acknowledgment of the services of this chief, named the future city after him—Seattle. Among the West Washington tribes was a superstition that if the name of a dead