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Author's Foreword
THESE legends (with two or three exceptions) were told to me personally by my honored friend, the late Chief Joe Capilano, of Vancouver, whom I had the privilege of first meeting in London in 1906, when he visited England and was received at Buckingham Palace by their Majesties King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.
To the fact that I was able to greet Chief Capilano in the
Chinook tongue, while we were both many thousands of miles from home, I
owe the friendship and the confidence which he so freely gave me when I
came to reside on the Pacific Coast. These legends he told me from time
to time, just as the mood possessed him, and he frequently remarked that
they had never been revealed to any other Englishspeaking person save
myself.
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These legends are printed by courtesy of the "Vancouver Daily Province," in which journal they first appeared.
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