Mensics' Journal. 



Puget Sound. ^J 



necessary to ix)int a Musket to his breast before the deter- 

 mind villain would recede from his purpose. 



Having thus retird to their station seemingly much 

 dissatisfied with the repulse / they met with & still in deep 

 consultation & some of them sharpening their Arrows as 

 if they were again preparing & had not yet given up their 

 purposd attack. We however set down again to finish our 

 Meal, & as we could no longer have the smallest doubt of 

 their hostile intentions, we watchd their motions very nar- 

 rowly & none of them were sufferd to approach near to 

 us & had their temerity carried them so far as to 

 discharge a single arrow at us the consequences would 

 instantly be fatal to them, as it w-as determind to punish 

 such an unprovokd attack with deservd severity to deter 

 others from aspiring at such diabolic schemes & committing 

 such atrocious actions, by which already too many have lost 

 their lives on this Coast, a whole Boats Crew being cut off 

 & massacred in the year 1787 not thirty leagues from our 

 present situation, besides acts equally guilty & alarming to 

 strangers. As they were convincd of our watchfull eye 

 over their treacherous conduct & impressed with an idea of 

 our readiness to oppose their hostilities, they now appeard 

 somewhat irresolute how to act, & this was thought a good 

 time to fire off one of our Swivels from the Launch that 

 they might see we had other resources for their destruction 

 besides those in our hands & more powerfull ones, but they 

 shewd less fear or astonishment at either the report of the 

 Swivel or the distant effect of the Shot than any Indians 

 I / ever saw so little in the way of intercourse with civi- 

 lized Nations. They however now seemd to relinquish their 

 design & on seeing our things carried down to the Boat 

 they began to offer their Bows & Arrows for sale which 

 was a convincing sign of their peaceable intentions & they 

 were readily purchased from them, as by this means we 

 disarmd them in a more satisfactory manner. 



These people were in all about thirty in number & 

 in general stout & resolute men — They had no women or 

 Children with them which made us more suspicious of their 

 designs — They had a number of skins such as Bears Lynxes 

 Racoons Rabbets & Deers which they readily parted with 

 for any kind of trinkets that were offerd them in exchange, 



1792. 

 -May 2lBt. 



Relonged to the 

 Imperial Eagle, 

 Capt. Barkley. 



