THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 341 



CHAP. IV. 



A Storm ^ after failing from Nootka Sou7id. — Refolution 

 fprings a Leak. — Pretended Strait of Adtniral de Fonte 

 fiaffed unexamined. — Progrefs along the Cmfi of Ame- 

 I'ica. — Behrings Bay. — Kayes If and. — Account of it, 

 — iJje Ships come to an A?tchor. — Vi filed by the Na- 

 tives. — Their Behaviour. — Fotidnefs for Beads and Iro7i. 

 — Attempt to plunder the Difccvery. — Refolution s Leak 

 flopped. — Progrefs up the Sound. — Meffrs. Gore and 

 Roberts fe?Jt to examine its Extent. — Reafo?is againfl a 

 Paffage to the North through it. — The Ships proceed down 

 ity to the ope?! Sea. 



HAVING put to fca, on the evening of the 26th, as j^"^?,- 

 before related, with flrong figns of an approaching ,' — ' 



florm ; thefc figns did not deceive us. We were hardly out 

 of the Sound, before the wind, in an inftant, fliifted from 

 North Eaft to South Eaft by Eaft, and increafed to a ftrong 

 gale, with fqualls and rain, and fo dark a fky, that we could 

 not fee the length of the fliip. Being apprehcnlive, from 

 the experience I had lince our arrival on this coall, of the 

 wind veering more to the South, which would put us in 

 danger of a lee-fliore, we got the tacks on board, and 

 ilrecched off to the South Weft, under all the fail the fliips 

 could bear. Fortunately, the wind veered no farther South- 

 erly, than South Eaft ; fo that at day-light the next morning, Monday 27. 

 we were quite clear of the coaft. 



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