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to leave the time and place to themselves. It did 

 not appear that any thing I had left had been 

 touched ; however, I now added a hatchet, and with 

 the night returned on board. 



On the 29th, were showers till the afternoon ; 

 when a party of the officers made an excursion up 

 the bay ; and Mr. Forster and his party were out 

 botanizing. Both parties returned in the evening 

 without meeting with any thing worthy of notice ; 

 and the two following days, every one was confined 

 to the ship on account of rainy stormy weather. 



In the afternoon of the 1st of April, accompanied 

 by several of the gentlemen, I went to see if any of 

 the articles I had left for the Indians were taken 

 away. We found every thing remaining in the canoe; 

 nor did it appear that any body had been there since. 

 After shooting some birds, one of which was a duck, 

 with a blue-grey plumage and soft bill, we, in the 

 evening, returned on board. 



The 2d, being a pleasant morning, Lieutenants 

 Clerke and Edgcumb, and the two Mr. Forsters, 

 went in a boat up the bay to search for the produc- 

 tions of nature ; and myself, Lieutenant Pickersgill, 

 and Mr. Hodges, went to take a view of the N. W. 

 side. In our way, we touched at the seal rock, and 

 killed three seals, one of which afforded us much 

 sport. After passing several isles, we at length came 

 to the most northern and western arms of the bay ; 

 the same as is formed by the land of Five Fingers 

 Point. In the bottom of this arm or cove we found 

 many ducks, wood-hens, and other wild fowl, some 

 of which we killed, and returned on board at ten 

 o'clock in the evening ; where the other party had 

 arrived several hours before us, after having had but 

 indifferent sport. They took with them a black dog 

 we had got at the Cape, who, at the first musket they 

 fired, ran into the woods, from whence he would not 

 return. The three following days were rainy, so that 

 no excursions were made. 



