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Mensies' Journal. 



Puget Sound. 



1792. 

 May 20th. 



Ash (Fraxinus 

 oregana) 

 Mountain Ash 

 (Pirus 

 sitchensis). 



May 21st. 



Carr Inlet. 



Pigeon 

 Guillemot 

 (Cepphus 

 columba). 

 Herron Id. 



scudding into the woods loaded with parcels, but the Men 

 put off from the shore in two Canoes to meet us, we made 

 them some little presents to convince them of our amicable 

 intentions, on which they invited us by signs to land, & the 

 only one we found remaining on the Beach was an old 

 woman without either hut or shelter, setting near their 

 baskets of provision & stores, the former consisted chiefly 

 of Clams some of which were dried & smoaked & strung up 

 for the convenience of carrying them about their Necks, 

 but a great number of them were still fresh in the shell 

 which they readily parted with to our people for buttons 

 beads & bits of Copper. After making some presents to 

 their women whom we prevaild upon them to recall from 

 the woods we left them & were followd by the two Canoes 

 with some men in each till we brought up in the evening, 

 & while we were erecting a small marquee for ourselves & 

 a tent for the people they lay off at a little distance gazing 

 on us with astonishment & greatly surprizd no doubt at the 

 expeditious manner in / which we erected our houses, they 

 staid with us till it was dark & then went to the opposite 

 shore where they kindled a fire & staid for the night. — Here 

 I found some small trees of both the American & Mountain 

 Ash neither of which I had before met with on this side of 

 the Continent — The other Plants I saw in the course of this 

 day were nearly the same as I had before examined in the 

 other arm the former cruize. 



Early the next morning we were visited by the two 

 Canoes who after we went off rushd on shore to examine 

 the place we had occupied where we left them & soon after 

 ran through a narrow gut leading to the Southward & 

 winded round into a wide deep bay which lead off N W 

 about 4 Miles, this we pursued passing on our right a 

 high sandy Cliff in which a species of Diver burrowed 

 very numerously like Swallows, we saw more of them in 

 the Cliffs of a small Island a little further on which was 

 also inhabited by a great number of Crows attending their 

 young, here we landed & shot several of them which were 

 found very good — We went but a little further on when we 

 were convincd that the bottom of the Bay was entirely 

 closed up by a low Beach & some naked marshy land behind 

 it. As we were pulling across we saw some Natives before 

 us on the western shore, three of whom put off in a Canoe 



