Where is Nootka Sound?
Where is the Oregon Country? We never heard of this country, where the natives are dressed in furs worth a king’s ransom I ** Eagerly maps were consulted, but maps gave little inf brma- tion. One map, indeed, called the region now known as Oregon and Washington *’ the Mo- zeemlek Country,” but more definite infor- mation than this it was impossible to secure. Even well-informed Americans knew more about Kamchatka than they knew about Oregon. But now all was changed. The lust for gain led many traders to the region of the Columbia. Their voyages were successful almost beyond belief. One fortunate ship- owner sold for three thousand dollars furs which had cost him an old ax. An English- man easily collected five hundred and sixty 6 Winning the Okegon CotrarET The Land of the Red Man 7 skins, which he sold for more than twenty thousand dollars. The returning traders told of the country they had seen. They spoke of the forests in which thousands of Indians lived in savage luxury. These In
