In his elegant introduction to this reprint by the Trinidad Museum Society, Axel Lindgren (1918-1999), fifth-generation Tsurai descendant, reminds us that the Yuroks of Tsurai "hosted the ships of seafaring countries from all around the world." The first guests of the ancient village, drawn by Trinidad's natural bay as a place to anchor and regroup, arrived with Don Bruno de Hezeta, commander of the Spanish expedition of 1775. Like all those who came after him, Hezeta kept a journal documenting, among other things, his observations of the native peoples he encountered. Over the next century, the Yuroks "hosted" explorers and fur traders, including Captain Jonathan Winship, Jr., L. K. Wood and the Josiah Gregg expedition, and Hans and Karl von Loeffelholtz. These first-person accounts of European explorers and, ultimately, settlers of Trinidad and their detailed observations of the ever-dwindling Yurok tribe make for compelling reading.