nceforth evoke whenever in the world I
must {p.104} have peace or die. For such emotion years of
pilgrimage were worthily spent. ("_The Canoe and the Saddle_,"
published posthumously in 1862).

[Illustration: Russell Peak, from Avalanche Camp, 2,500 feet below.
Named for Prof. Israel C. Russell, geologist.]

[Illustration: Looking up Winthrop Glacier from Avalanche Camp.]

[Illustration: Looking across Winthrop Glacier from Avalanche Camp to
Steamboat Prow (the Wedge) and St. Elmo Pass. Elevation of camera,
11,000 feet.]

In the controversy over the Mountain's name, some persons have been
misled into imaging Winthrop a fabricator of pseudo-Indian
nomenclature. But his work bears scrutiny. He wrote before there was
any dispute as to the name, or any rivalry between towns to confound
partisanship with scholarship. He was in the Territory while Captain
George B. McClellan, was surveying the Cascades to find a pass for a
railroad. He was in close touch with McClellan's party, and doubtless
knew well its able ethnologist, George Gibbs, the Harvard man whose
works on the Indian languages of the Northwest are the foundation of
all later books in that field. Although he first learned it from the
Indians, in all likelihood he discussed the name "Tacoma" with Gibbs,
who was already collecting material for his writings, published in the
{p.107} report of the Survey and in the "Contributions" of the
Smithsonian Institution. Among these are the vocabularies of a score
of Indian dialects, which must be mentioned here because they are
conclusive as to the form, meaning and application of the name.

[Illustration {p.105}: View south from the Sluiskin Mountains across
Moraine Park to the head of Carbon Glacier. Elevation of camera, 6,500
feet. Moraine Park, below, was until recently the bed of an
interglacier. On the extreme left, Avalanche Camp and Russell Peak are
seen between Carbon and Winthrop Glaciers.]

[Illustration {p.106}: Portion of Spray Park, with north-side view of
the Mountain, showing Observation Rock and timber line. Elevation of
camera, 7,000 feet.]

[Illustration: Climbing the seracs of Winthrop Glacier.]

In his vocabulary of the Winatsha (Wenatchee) language, Gibbs entered:
"T'koma, snow peak." In that of the Niswalli (Nisqually), he noted:
"Takob, the name of Mt. Rainier." "T'kope," Chinook for white, is
evidently closely allied. Gibbs himself tells us that the Northwestern
dialects treated