A standard breakfast for the 49th NWSurvey team was bean soup. The cook would soak/cook the beans overnight in a cast iron kettle on the fire and they would eat it for breakfast . Not sure what kind of bean but one member of the team Harris, I think, wrote that one morning the black beans were served with a new vinaigrette which caused him much discomfort and weight loss for a week. Maybe pease were beans?
Pease porridge (hot or cold), made from peas, a pulse, was and is a common dish throughout the British Isles. Easily made with cheap ingredients and easily transported. One can imagine that dried peas, nutritious and filling, were a good thing to carry along on treks, easily reconstituted with water and eaten with a clam shell.
Fun article! Through Chinuk Wawa language classes I’ve been taking, I’ve been pronouncing Alki like ałqi (a-th-key) that barred L is suppose to be where you blow out air out the side of your tongue. That’s the great thing of trade languages is the vastness of pronunciation. Northern CW is so much different than the CW we speak closer to the Columbia River.
Just checked the origin of Mt. Tolmie, on Vancouver Island "looming above Victoria. I recalled it from our work on the geology there. Named after the same doctor.
I worked at the UW's Graduate School of Public Affairs when Brewster Denny was still the dean. Later, we were discussing Seattle history and he emphatically said that Alk-ee was the correct pronunciation. He thought that pronunciation was rejected because it was a derogatory term used to describe alcoholics.
A standard breakfast for the 49th NWSurvey team was bean soup. The cook would soak/cook the beans overnight in a cast iron kettle on the fire and they would eat it for breakfast . Not sure what kind of bean but one member of the team Harris, I think, wrote that one morning the black beans were served with a new vinaigrette which caused him much discomfort and weight loss for a week. Maybe pease were beans?
Pease porridge (hot or cold), made from peas, a pulse, was and is a common dish throughout the British Isles. Easily made with cheap ingredients and easily transported. One can imagine that dried peas, nutritious and filling, were a good thing to carry along on treks, easily reconstituted with water and eaten with a clam shell.
Fun article! Through Chinuk Wawa language classes I’ve been taking, I’ve been pronouncing Alki like ałqi (a-th-key) that barred L is suppose to be where you blow out air out the side of your tongue. That’s the great thing of trade languages is the vastness of pronunciation. Northern CW is so much different than the CW we speak closer to the Columbia River.
Owen, thanks for that information. Next we get together, it'd be great to hear you say ałqi. All best. David
Just checked the origin of Mt. Tolmie, on Vancouver Island "looming above Victoria. I recalled it from our work on the geology there. Named after the same doctor.
Tolmie was formerly also honored by Lake Tolmie, now American Lake, near Tacoma. After his time at the HBC, he ended up in Victoria.
Oh yes, love the word of the week...perjinkity! I will add this to my list of words to cause my friends to lift an eyebrow at me.
That's my goal!
I worked at the UW's Graduate School of Public Affairs when Brewster Denny was still the dean. Later, we were discussing Seattle history and he emphatically said that Alk-ee was the correct pronunciation. He thought that pronunciation was rejected because it was a derogatory term used to describe alcoholics.