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Brackenridge's Journal of a voyage up the river Missouri, 1811; Franchère's Voyage to Northwest Coast, 1811-1814

Note 136 — Chapter XX

J. V. (Jedediah Vincent) Huntington translation

There can not be a doubt that the existing tribes on the N. W. coast, have reached that country from the South, and not from the North. They are the debris of the civilization of Central America, expelled by a defecating process that is going on in all human societies, and so have sunk into barbarism.—Huntington.

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