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Item Historical Notes and Reminiscences of Early Times in Oregon - Maritime and Land Expeditions - transcription.(UNKNOWN, 1883) Blanchet, F. N., Rt. Rev."In 1534 Ximenes reached latitude 37 deg (Santa Cruz bay, north of Monterey); while going on shore in the vicinity he was murdered together with 20 of his companions, by the natives. The vessel was taken back to the Mexican waters by the survivors."Item Historical Notes and Reminiscences of Early Times in Oregon - The First Civilized Man - transcription.(UNPUBLISHED, 1883) Blanchet, F. N., Rt. Rev."Few rivers in America contain and offer to the traveler so many Dalles, so many dangerous rapids, reefs, hidden rocks and whirlpools as the Columbia does. The pioneer Canadians and foreigners who first traveled on the Columbia and baptized its most important spots with peculiar and appropriate names, acquainted with the dangers, which a sad experience taught them to avoid, suffered much in making their first trips."Item Historical Notes and Reminiscences of Early Times in Oregon in a Series of Articles - transcription.(UNPUBLISHED, 1883) Blanchet, F. N., Rt. Rev."The first Catholic missionaries Father M. Demers and Father F. N. Blanchet, who arrived in Oregon in 1838 and traveled through all the country to visit and teach its numerous Indian tribes never found among them the origin of that name. One tribe only the Chinooks who lived on the right bank of the Columbia opposite Astoria gave Father Demers any name to the river calling it 'Wikait Wimaik'."Item Historical Sketches - transcript.(UNKNOWN, 1878-08-22) Blanchet, F. N., Rt. Rev."By the arrivals from France and Canada the ecclesiastical Province of Oregon City possessed in the fall of 1847 3 bishops, 14 Jesuit Fathers, 4 Oblate Fathers of MI, 13 secular priests including T. Measplie, ordained in May, 1850; 13 sisters and two houses of education."Item Historical Sketches of the Catholic Church in Oregon and the Northwest - transcript (part 3).(UNKNOWN, 1878-08-22) Blanchet, F. N., Rt. Rev."We reached the Upper Cascades with great care and early enough before noon to make the long portage on the same day, and encamp on the Lower Cascades. On Saturday, the 24th, we went on with sail and oars; we left on our right the high rock called Cape Horn by travelers of wind and storm often prevailing there."Item Historical Sketches of the Catholic Church in Oregon and the Northwest - transcript.(UNKNOWN, 1910) Blanchet, F. N., Rt. Rev."When the renowned Jesuit missionary and subsequent martyr to the Faith--Father Isaac Jogues--first planted the seeds of Faith among the Iroquois Indians on the banks of the Mohawk in 1642, he little thought the grain of mustard-seed thus sown would eventually grown into a great tree whose branches would reach from the Atlantic to the Pacific."Item The Jesuits in Old Oregon & Historical Notes and Reminiscences of Early Times in Oregon - transcripts.(UNKNOWN, 1883) Bischoff, William N. S. J.; Blanchet, F. N., Rt. Rev."Received with great joy. De Smet baptized 106 children and some of the old people. This journey gave De Smet an excellent idea of the dispositions of these different tribes and his work among them sets him down as the precursor of the various Jesuit missions which one day would be established for each of these nations."