Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1890 — How Names Grow. [ARTICLE]

How Names Grow.

How names grow receives an odd illustration in the Congo country. White people are known in the Upper Congo districts as Batendele. Tendele was as near as the Congo nature could get to the pronunciation of Stanley “ba” being the common prefix for people. In a somewhat similar way the Indians of the northwest coast bestowed the title of Boston men on all white people, as ships from Boston were those most frequently seen b.v them in old days when the Oregon coast was a howling wilderness.