CHAPTER V.
THE VARIOUS NAMES OF LAKE TAHOE We have already seen that Fremont, the discoverer of Lake Tahoe, first called it Lake Bonpland, after Humboldt's scientific co-traveler.
That name, however, never came in general use.

When the great westward emigration began it seemed naturally to be called by its Indian name, Tahoe.
In _Innocents Abroad_ Mark Twain thus petulantly and humorously expresses his dislike of the name, Tahoe, and sarcastically defines its meaning.
"Sorrow and misfortune overtake the legislature that still from year to year permits Tahoe to retain its unmusical cognomen! Tahoe! It suggests no crystal waters, no picturesque shores, no sublimity.

Tahoe for a sea in the clouds; a sea that has character, and asserts it in solemn calms, at times, at times in savage storms; a sea, whose royal seclusion is guarded by a cordon of sentinel peaks that lift their frosty fronts nine thousand feet above the level world; a sea whose every aspect is impressive, whose belongings are all beautiful, whose lonely majesty types the Deity! "Tahoe means grasshoppers.

It means grasshopper soup.

It is Indian, and suggestive of Indians.