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[[underlined]] Steilacoom [[/underlined]]
After doing some necessary shopping in preparation for the rainy country ahead, we went on, without having had a glimpse of any mountain.  We reached Tacoma before daylight - & while Vernon went on to North Yakima & Pasco, I went out to Steilacoom to see L.A.H.C. A trolley ride there then cut one spruce, with palettes of noble timber leads out beyond Chambers Creek to an opening on the sound just above the village of Steilacoom. A 'ladder' a long flight of steps leads up there thru the wooded side of the cliff to the house which stands on the edge of the bluff & looks off on the snow capped Olympics (when the clouds lift) & down on the fishing boats that gather at the foot of the bluff.
[[margin]] Salmon [[underlined]] fishing [[/underlined]] [[/margin]]
It was interesting to watch the salmon fishers.  These are about 20 [[insertion]] fishing [[/insertion]] boats. Steam [[insertion]] (?) [[/insertion]] launches are used now, but formerly the boats were rowed & the men sang when they took in the nets.  Each launch is accompanied by a row boat & [[insertion]] at a certain time of the tide [[/insertion]] when the fish are seen the men who stand looking down into the water, the row boat anchors & the launch circles out, paying out the net till they get around to the row boat again, completing their circle.  It is a pretty sight to see several of these big circles of floats like beads of a necklace with a blue or green or white fishing boat.  [[strikethrough]] As [[/strikethrough]] When the net is paid out a man [[insertion]] stands [[/insertion]] with a long 

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