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PREFACE
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Indians who were taught trades at the Missions often drifted into the service of the families; and the records of San Carlos Mission show that on November 14, 1791, seventeen natives of "Puerto de San Lorenzo de Nutka en el Estrechos de San Juan de Fuca" were baptized into the Holy Catholic Church at that Mission.
I am indebted to Miss Harriet Hawley of New York for criticism both of the spirit and the technique of these stories, and to my sister, Mabel G. Chandler, for assistance in correction.
KATHERINE CHANDLER
San Francisco, California
May, 1905
