Dictionary entry
Chue-rey Woh • pn • Trinidad Head (a large rounded promontory at Trinidad, almost separated from the mainland)
Lexicon record # 317 | Source reference(s):
JPH YG:K11 YM19
Semantic
domain: place names
Geographical story
- Lame Billy of Wechpus, "Churew 'O Chin", YM18 • "A young man grew at Churew. He had a sister. He told her one morning, 'I should like to see a pretty hill be'. 'What for?' she asked. 'I always hear laughing when the wind blows from there. I almost hear someone laughing. That is why I want to make a good hill here. I want to sit on it that I may look about. There may be people somewhere. Perhaps they will see me when they come by.' He went down to the beach. He heaped up the sand with his hands and made the pile round, picked it up, took it in one hand, and set it down again. So he made Churewa'."