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The End

^^! HE earlier Cathlamet life was sometimes enlivened by the visits of strangers, and one of these is worthy of remembrance.

Half way between the Hudson's Bay store and the Strong house was a little cove in the low, rocky bank before which, in high tide, floated the Indian canoes and behind which was the Indian lodges. An old logging railway and cannery wharves now hide it almost from sight, but it was in this early day the principal landing place for the Indian village and here in times past McLoughlin, McDougall, McTavish and many other notables had landed.

In the Fall of 1852 a canoe turned in to the