24 Mensies' Journal. 



Admiralty Inlet. 



1T92. 

 May 7th. 



Port Hadlock. 



Salicornia 

 ambigua 

 (Samphire or 

 Glasswort). 



Kilisut. 



May 8th. 



exploring & fixing on a distant point as a place of meet- 

 ing in the evening. Invited by the enchanting appearance 

 of the Country & fine serene weather, I walkd with Cap* 

 V^ancouver & some others along the Western shore for a 

 considerable distance as it afforded me an opportunity of 

 exploring for natural productions as I went along. After 

 a long walk we met with a thick pine forest which obligd 

 us to embark & the shore here taking an Easterly direction 

 we rowd along it & towards evening we found the arm also 

 winding a little to the Eastward & terminate in a small basin 

 of shallow water being here divided only from the end of 

 another arm by a flat muddy beach / coverd with thick beds 

 of marsh samphire. Being thus satisfied of its termination 

 we returnd back to the place of rendezvous where we met 

 L* Puget with the Long Boat, but Mr Johnstone who had 

 crossed over to the Eastern shore of the arm was lead into 

 an armlet which he supposd would join with ours a little 

 further on & that after exploring it he would be able to 

 meet us in the evening at the place appointed, after pulling 

 a long way he found his mistake & being late he took up 

 his quarters in it all night, so that we were separated for 

 the evening, in consequence of which this armlet obtaind 

 the name of Johnstone's decoy, it takes nearly a South East 

 direction & is very narrow at the entrance. 



The next morning was calm & pleasant & we set off 

 on our return back in expectation of meeting Mr Johnstone 

 whose Swivels we heard at a considerable distance pretty 

 early, he joind us about 9 after a fatigueing row where we 

 were at the entrance of a small brook filling our water Cags ; 

 here we met with some detention by the Long Boat getting 

 aground upon a flat with a falling Tide, but in the mean 

 time the Pinnace went over to the opposite shore to take 

 Angles & prepare Breakfast, so that there was very little 

 time lost. After the Long Boat floated they all three 

 pulld to the Northward & while we walkd along the Eastern 

 shore & on a Beach a little to the Southward of Johnstone's 

 decoy, not far from where we Breakfasted we saw two 

 human heads impaled upon the points of two poles erected 

 a few yards asunder & about twelve feet high, part of the 

 Skin about the Chin was hanging down, but the rest of 

 the face teeth & black long hair was entire in each — / 

 The poles enterd under the Chin piercd their Vertex, & in 



