Mensies' Journal. 



Puget Sound. 41 



of the wild animals of the forest, that which was peculiar 

 to the Women was a dressd Deer's Skin wrapped round 

 their waist & covering down to their knees or rather below 

 them, & the men too generally wore some little covering 

 before them to hide those parts / which modesty & almost 

 the universal voice of nature require. 



We made but a short stay among these people & on 

 leaving them distributed some Beads & little ornamental 

 Trinkets chiefly of Brass & Copper among the Women & 

 Children of which they were very fond. 



On our return back to the Northward we kept the 

 Continental shore a board & by two in the afternoon we 

 came on our old ground by the large opening we had 

 passed on the 23*^ so that we had now entirely finishd 

 this complicated Sound which afterwards obtaind the name 

 of Puget's Sound, & after dining on the East point of the 

 opening a favorable breeze sprung up from the Southward 

 which we made use of to return to the Ship by the nearest 

 route we could take. 



In the dusk of the evening as we were passing the 

 Island on which we dind on the 22^^ near the Eastern shore 

 of the Alain Arm we saw a fire kindled upon it which we 

 could not suppose then to be any ones else but the Natives, 

 till we afterwards understood that it was Cap* Vancouver 

 & his party putting up for the evening, they likewise observd 

 our Boats & Sails but as we were at some distance they 

 took us for Canoes & so they went on surveying & examin- 

 ing the very ground that we had gone over. 



When we came into the Alain Arm finding the breeze 

 freshening & likely to remain steady in our favor we con- 

 tinued on under Sail all night & arrivd at the ship about 

 2 o'clock the / next morning, but as they had removd her 

 out of the place we had left her in towards the Point where 

 the village was on we were obligd to fire off some Swivels 

 which they answerd from the Ship & thereby discoverd to 

 us her situation. 



We now found that the Chatham had joind two days 

 before us, after examining the North West side of the gulph 

 which they found to consist of a vast number of Islands 

 with wide & extensive openings leading to the Northward 

 & North westward. 



1702. 

 May 26th. 



Badd Inlet and 

 tLe site of 

 Olympla, 

 thoufc'l) not 

 described, 

 were Included 

 in this day's 

 survey, as 

 shown by 

 Vancouver's 

 chart. 

 Nisqually 

 Reach. 



Ketron Id. 



Restoration 

 Point. 



May 27th. 



San Jnan 

 Archipelago. 



