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YO-SEM'-I-TE--"Full-grown grizzly bear."
PO-HO'-NO (Bridal Veil)--"A puffing-wind."
LOI'-YA (The Sentinel)--"A signal station."
CHO'-LACK (Yosemite Falls)--"The falls."
CHO-KO'-NI (Royal Arches)--"Canopy of baby basket." Strictly speaking, this name applies only to a deep alcove near the top of this cliff.
YO-WEI'-YEE (Nevada)--"Twisting."
TO-TAU-KON-NU'-LA (El Capitan)--Named from the To-tau'-kons, or cranes, which used to make their nests in a meadow near the top of this rock.
KU-SO'-KO (Cathedral Rock)--Interpretation doubtful.
PU-SEE'-NA CHUCK'-AH (Cathedral Spires)--"Pu-see-na" means mouse or rat, and might possibly be applied to a squirrel.
"Chuck-ah" is a store house or _cache_.
WAW-HAW'-KEE (Three Brothers)--"Falling rocks."
Pom-pom-pa'-sus, usually given as the Indian name of the Three Brothers, is the name of a smaller rock immediately to the West.
WEI-YOW' (Mt. Watkins)--"Juniper Mountain."
TO-KO'-YA (North Dome)--"The Basket."
TIS-SA'-ACK (Half Dome)--A character in Indian mythology.
MAH'-TA (Cap of Liberty)--Said to mean "Martyr Mountain."
PI-WEI'-ACK (Vernal Fall)--Said to mean "Sparkling water."
LE-HAM'-I-TEE (Indian Canyon)--"The place of the arrow-wood."
HUM-MO' (Devil's Thumb)--"The Lost Arrow."
AH-WEI'-YA (Mirror Lake)--"Quiet Water."
TOO-LOO'-LO-WEI-ACK (Illillouette Fall)--Interpretation doubtful.
WAH'-WO-NAH--"Big Tree." (Now commonly spelled and p.r.o.nounced Wa-wo'-na.)
