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Menzies' Journal. 



Port Discovery. 



1792. 

 May 6tb. 



Meares, Voy. 

 pp. 255-6-7. 



This Chimcera 

 is now listed 

 as Hydrolagus 

 Colliei. 



May 7th. 



Point Wilson. 



dozen human skulls scattered about the Area — This lead to 

 various conjectures, some supposing it to be a place allotted 

 for human sacrifices made to banquet the unnatural gor- 

 mondizing appetites of the Inhabitants who in a late publi- 

 cation are all / alledged to be Cannibals but without any 

 rational proof that brings the least conviction to my mind. 

 The number of human bones seen in different parts of the 

 Harbour almost equally advancd in decay would rather lead 

 us to suppose that Battle had been fought here at a period 

 not very remote & that the vanquishd on that occasion suf- 

 ferd by the refined cruelties of their Conquerors on the 

 above spot, for it is the known practice of the American 

 Tribes on the opposite Coast to burn their vanquishd enemies 

 & it is not improbable that the same horrid custom prevails 

 here. 



The Seine was daily hauled at the Tents & with some 

 degree of success though we seldom obtaind a sufficient 

 supply for all hands, the fish generally caught were Bream 

 of two or three kinds, Salmon & Trout & two kind of flat 

 fish, one of which was a new species of Pleuroncctes, with 

 Crabs which were found very good & palatable & we sel- 

 dom faild in hauling on shore a number of Elephant Fish 

 {Chimcera Caller hynchus) & Scolpings (Cottus scorpius) 

 but the very appearance of these was sufficient to deter the 

 use of them, they therefore generally remaind on the Beach. 



Early on the morning of the 7th I set out with Cap* 

 Vancouver & some of the Officers in three Boats manned 

 & armed & provided with five days provision, our object 

 was to examine & explore the country to the eastward of 

 us, We proceeded out of the Port with foggy weather & 

 little wind & keeping the right hand shore close on board 

 we rowed for about two leagues to the North East ward, 

 where we enterd a large opening which took a Southerly 

 direction & which afterwards obtaind the name of Admi- 

 ralty Inlet, but as the weather continued still very foggy we 

 landed on the point till it should clear up a little, & took 

 several hauls of a / small Seine we had in the Boat but 

 without the least success. 



A little before noon the Fog dispersd when we saw 

 the opening we had enterd go to the South Eastward a 

 considerable extent & a little distance from us another arm 

 branching off to the Southward, we walkd along shore to the 



