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it is spelled Callemex. In other early books on Oregon it is spelled in different ways: Killimux, in Ross' "Adventures," page 87; Kallamook, in Slacum's "Report," page 42, House Rep. 101, 25th Congress, 3d. Session; Killemook, in Town- send's "Narrative," page 175; Kilemooh, in Lee and Frost's "Ten Years in Oregon," page 307; Killamuck, in Hastings' "Description," page 60; Killamook, in Warre and Vavasour's "Census" as printed in Martin's "Hudson's Bay Territories"; and Kilamook, as printed in Schafer's article in Oregon His- torical Quarterly, March, 1909, page 61 ; Killimous, in Duflot de Mofras' "Exploration," Vol. 2, page 335 ; Kilamook, in Pal- mer's "Journal," page 105 ; and Killamuhe, in Wilkes' "West- ern America", page 88, quoting from Hale.

In Hall J. Kelley's book or pamphlet of eighty pages, "A Geographical Sketch of that part of North American called Oregon", published in 1830, on page 40, it is said: "Killamuck river is one hundred yards wide, has no falls, and no difficult rapids. It opens into Killamuck bay, ten miles South of the creek of the same name, and forms a communication, for a considerable Indian trade, with the Multnomah valley; there being a short portage from the head of this river to the Multnomah".

In House Report 101, ordered to> be printed February 16, 1839, is bound a finely engraved map, showing what is called the "Territory of Oregon". It was "compiled in United States Bureau of Topographical Engineers from the latest authori- ties under the direction of Col. J. J. Abert by Wash. Hood, 1838". On this map the name of Tillamook River is spelled Killimoux. On this map the Rocky Mountains are called "Rocky or Oregon" Mountains.

Lieut. Neil M. Howison, U. S. N., came to Oregon in July, 1846, in command of the United States Naval schooner Shark. October 10, 1846, his vessel was wrecked, and became a total loss, on South Spit, near the Columbia River bar. A portion of the hull, with three carronades attached to it, was found by Midshipman Simes on the beach below Tillamook Head. He