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  • But, as we had other ideas of comfort, we waited two days; and, as the weather was still unsettled, we took the precaution, before starting, to give him his directions for the trip: "_Halo_ wind, Port Angeles; _hyiu_ wind, Dungeness," meaning that we were to have the privilege of stopping at Dungeness if it should prove too stormy to go on.

    Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Caroline C. Leighton

  • Then we drifted into talk of the sockeye and of the hyiu chickimin the Indians would get.

    Legends of Vancouver 1911

  • "Yes, hyiu chickimin," she repeated with a sigh of satisfaction.

    Legends of Vancouver 1911

  • Then we drifted into talk of the sockeye run and of the hyiu chickimin the Indians would get.

    Legends of Vancouver 1911

  • "Yes, hyiu chickimin," she repeated with a sigh of satisfaction.

    Legends of Vancouver 1911

  • "Yes, hyiu chickimin," she repeated with a sigh of satisfaction.

    Legends of Vancouver E. Pauline Johnson 1887

  • Then we drifted into talk of the sockeye and of the hyiu chickimin the Indians would get.

    Legends of Vancouver E. Pauline Johnson 1887

  • "Yes, hyiu chickimin," she repeated with a sigh of satisfaction.

    Legends of Vancouver E. Pauline Johnson 1887

  • Then we drifted into talk of the sockeye run and of the hyiu chickimin the Indians would get.

    Legends of Vancouver E. Pauline Johnson 1887

  • "Always; and hyiu muck-a-muck when big salmon run.

    Legends of Vancouver 1911

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