144 REPOET ON THE QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS. 



sliowiug the northerly drift along the shores of Oregon, Washington 

 Territory, and British Columbia. 



On Friday, August 17, I left Klekwakoon for the village of Tledoo, 

 near Susk or Frederick Island, at 9 a. m., and reached camp at 2.30 

 p. m. There were a few Indian houses unoccupied and I took posses- 

 sion of one, glad to get under shelter from the rain which was falling 

 fast. 



This village, which we found vacant on our arrival, is occupied during 

 the season by sea-otter hunters. 



I had procured a chart of Queen Charlotte Islands published by the 

 English admiralty from a map by G. M. Dawson, of the Geological Sur- 

 vey office, Montreal, who made a reconnaissance of the east coast of the 

 group in the summer of 1878. The west coast has never been surveyed, 

 but the chart of that portion was made up from an old liussian map of 

 1849, which is very incorrect. I kept this chart before me as I cruised 

 along the coast in the canoe, and old Edinso, who is an excellent pilot, 

 pointed out to me the errors in the chart as we passed along, and gave 

 me the nomenclature of all the capes, points, bays, inlets, harbors, and 

 islands. Frederick or Susk Island and Hippa or ISTesto Island had 

 been pretty accurately laid down, but the intervening sjiaces from Cape 

 Knox to Skidegate Channel were not correctly laid down, and I marked 

 the corrections as we came to each place. At Hii)pah Island in par- 

 ticular is a fine inlet not laid down, which makes a complete harbor of 

 refuge for vessels bound up or down the coast. It is hidden from the 

 view of passing vessels by ISTesto or Hippah Island, and will be found 

 when properly surveyed to be of much importance to commerce. All 

 my new work I have marked in red ink on the copy of the chart which 

 I sent to Washington from Victoria, August 6. 



I was detained at Camp Tledoo from August 17 to August 21 by head 

 winds and heavy breakers, which prevented our passing through the 

 only opening in the reef to the ocean, and I occupied the time in making 

 such collections as I could and making notes of the country for several 

 miles each side of our camp. 



On Tuesday, August 21, I started at 5.20 a m. and i)roceeded as far 

 as Hippah Island, where we camped for the night with much discomfort. 

 The following morning I made a reconnaissance of Skaloo Inlet and 

 noted it on my map, and proceeded leisurely along, noting every point 

 and change in the coast, till we came to Runnell Sound, when it com- 

 menced to blow from the south, with fog and rain, and we were forced 

 to take refuge in a cove called Tchuwn, where I had to remain, wind and 

 storm bound, till Saturday, the 25th, when I started at 7 a. m., and 

 having camped that night in Skidegate Channel, I reached the Skide- 

 gate Oil Works at 8 o'clock Sunday morning, August 2G. I at once 

 made arrangements with the Skidegate Oil Company to assist me in 

 procuring some black cod {Anoplopoma fimbria), which was done by 

 Bending Indians to the west coast, where they abound, and in a few 



