They are sufficient to contain a single person and several bushels of roots, yet so very light that a woman can carry them with ease.

She takes one of these canoes into a pond where the water is as high as the breast, and by means of her toes separates from the root this bulb, which on being freed from the mud rises immediately to the surface of the water, and is thrown into the canoe.

In this manner these patient females remain in the water for several hours, even in the depth of winter.

This plant is found through the whole extent of the valley in which we now are, but does not grow on the Columbia farther eastward." (1) In the Chinook jargon "Wappatoo" stands for potato.
The natives of this inland region, the explorers found, were larger and better-shaped than those of the sea-coast, but they were nearly all afflicted with sore eyes.

The loss of one eye was common, and not infrequently total blindness was observed in men of mature years, while blindness was almost universal among the old people.