Note 105 — Chapter IX

This is a fair specimen of the kind of lingua franca which even then had begun to spring up in the intercourse of the early traders with the Indians, and which by now takes the shape of the Chinook Jargon. For, apart from the imperfectly pronounced Indian words, there is no such term as Nootka in any language. It was a misconception of the first visitors there. They probably mistook Nootchee, a mountain, for the name of the country generally (p. 29).