Mensies Journal. 



Pugct Sound. 33 



of the produce of the Country, I therefore embarkd next 

 morning before day light with / Lieutenant Puget in the 

 Launch who commanded the party together with Mr 

 Whidbey in the Cutter who was directed to continue the 

 survey & about the dawn we enterd the Arm which lead to 

 the Southward & appeard to be about half a league wide 

 with sandy shores low land coverd with Trees to the waters 

 edge on both sides, after pursuing it for about three leagues 

 we passed at noon a large opening or rather deep bay going 

 off to the Eastward & apparently ending among very low 

 marshy land, & as we saw an opening on the North East 

 side of this Bay, we conjecturd that it might probably join 

 the other branch of the Arm & make the land we passed on 

 our left hand in the forenoon an Island. 



Up this Bay we had a most charming prospect of 

 Mount Rainier which now appeard close to us though at 

 least 10 or 12 leagues off, for the low land at the head 

 of the Bay swelled out very gradually to form a most 

 beautiful & majestic Mountain of great elevation whose 

 line of ascent appeard equally smooth & gradual on every 

 side with a round obtuse summit coverd two thirds of its 

 height down with perpetual Snow as were also the summits 

 of a rugged ridge of Mountains that proceeded from it to 

 the Northward. 



We pursued our Southerly direction with a strong flood 

 tide in our favor & about two in the afternoon we came to 

 another arm leading off to the Westward which we enterd 

 & found a very strong tide against us. At this time we 

 were at a loss how to account for this as it evidently appeard 

 to be the flood tide by rising on the shore, though we after- 

 wards found that it was occasioned by a number of Islands 

 round which the Tide had reverted / & as it was very strong 

 against us we disembarkd on the Point to dine till it should 

 slacken a little. While we were here two Canoes passed on 

 the opposite shore who dodged us at a distance several times 

 in the forenoon, they afterwards crossed over & went into 

 a small Cove close to us, where we soon followed them 

 & on the Point of it saw a number of old deserted huts 

 amongst the trees but saw none of the Indians till we were 

 returning back from the end of the Cove, when we heard 

 them hailing from the opposite shore, & as we began to pull 

 across towards them we observd the women & children 



1792. 

 Muy 20th. 



Dalco passage 

 leading to 

 Commencement 

 Bay. 



Vashon Id. 



Through " The 

 Narrows." 



Hale Passage. 



Probably 

 Fosdick Point. 



