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The Vancouver Expedition

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TRIBUTE TO THE EVER WONDERFUL KATE BEATON AT www.harkavagrant.com

So me, I love history, and I love funny stuff, and I therefore I loooove Kate Beaton and her absolutely genius webcomic.

Lately I've been really interested in the history of my own darling Washington State, which has a relatively short Western history but is rich with hilarious weirdness.

This comic is dedicated to the sad expedition of Captain Vancouver, who was the last guy to think he was the first guy to discover the Washington Coastal region. His journey was so awful (full of disease and bad weather and low pay) that most of our coast is dotted with hilarious names like "Desperation Point", "Point No Point", "Massacre Bay", "Skull Island", "Misery Point," ETC you get it.

The WORST part for poor Vancouver is that, while he did name all these things, MOST of them had already been discovered by like three other guys before, mostly Spaniards.

I've sketched out a few more of these, so I'll probably be doing more haha.
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11 years after I favorited this, it's still hilarious <3