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Mensies Journal. 



Puget Sound. 



1792. 

 May 27tli. 



East of 

 Vashon Id. 



May 28th. 



Restoration Pt. 



One or more 

 species of 

 Hookera 

 {Brodicea of 

 Smitii). 

 See Appendix. 

 Shoots of 

 Ruhus 



spectahilia, a 

 common 

 sub-acid relish 

 of Indians of 

 N.W. Coast. 



We also learnd that Cap* Vancouver & Mr Johnstone 

 set off yesterday morning with two Boats to examine the 

 arm leading to the South Eastward which we have already 

 supposed to join with the one we were in. 



While we were absent the Natives one day brought a 

 deer along side of the ship which they had ensnard by means 

 of a large net on the adjacent Island & disposed of it for 

 about a foot square of sheet copper. This being a day of 

 recreation it indued a party of Officers with a number of 

 Men from both Vessels to land on the Island to try their 

 luck & enjoy the sport of the Chace & they were not wholly 

 disappointed for they started two or three Deer but could 

 not kill any of them, & as the party had spread out through 

 the woods in different directions they ran no little danger 

 of shooting one another among the Bushes. 



That as little time as possible might be lost of the fine 

 weather we now enjoyd in our investigation Lieutenant 

 Broughton saild on the / forenoon of the 28th with the 

 Chatham taking with him Mr Whidbey with a Boat & Boats 

 Crew from the Discovery, & left word for Cap*^ Vancouver 

 that he would follow back the opposite shore of this arm 

 (which was presumd to be the Continent) & enter the first 

 opening leading to the Northward which he would pursue 

 till he met with a division of it & then he would bring to 

 with the Vessel & send two Boats off to examine its 

 branches. 



I landed on the Point near the Ship where I found a 

 few families of Indians live in very Mean Huts or Sheds 

 formd of slender Rafters & coverd with Mats. Several of 

 the women were digging on the Point which excited my 

 curiosity to know what they were digging for & found it 

 to be a little bulbous root of a liliaceous plant which on 

 searching about for the flower of it I discoverd to be a 

 new Genus of the Triandria monogina. This root with 

 the young shoots of Rasberries & a species of Barnacle 

 which they pickd off the Rocks along shore formd at this 

 time the chief part of their wretched subsistance. Some of 

 the women were employd in making Mats of the Bullrushes 

 while the Men were lolling about in sluggish idleness. — 

 There were about 70 Inhabitants on this point but a number 

 of them removd with all their furniture since the Ship lay 

 here. One day a Chief with some others visited the Ship 



