And there were those continuing in the service of the company who gave their names to localities- instance Cox, the EumaBus of Fort Vancouver and Sauve, who kept the dairies on Wapato Island, after- ward Sauve Island. 13

French Prairie.

French Prairie, the tract where the servants of the fur company began their planting in the Willamette

,, ™ • ~i q ™ tit« rmt of which new countries are colonized, and the

T^Tr th r^dWtB of the Hudson's Bay Company's protection, varied chawctei [£™ Te ^ G ™ e swineherd, whose name is given to Cox are well lUu ?^S^ y F ^ V^conver, where among the oaks that skirt the Plain, two miles ^^^fJ^Tox was a native of the Hawaiian Islands, ^th^^tn^rl^h ol Captain Cook. He afterward went to