46 Mensies' Journal. 



Admiralty Inlet. 



1792. 

 June 5tli. 



Foulweatlier 

 Bluff. 



June 6th. 



South of 



Marrowstone 



Point. 



Smith's Id. 



Oyster-catchers 

 {Hmmatopus 

 Bachmanii) . 



On Cypress Id. 



Rhinoceros 

 Auklet 

 (Cerorhinca 

 monocerata) . 



time motionless gazing upon us with the utmost astonish- 

 ment, & as we were obliged to ply soon after against the 

 breeze back Admiralty Inlet, our whole mechanical manoeu- 

 vres in working the Vessels with so much apparent ease 

 seemd greatly to increase their admiration, by which we 

 were pretty certain that we were the first Vessels they ever 

 saw traversing their / winding Channels. 



In the dusk of the Evening we passed the bluff point 

 at the division of the first long arm & about midnight came 

 to an Anchor a few Miles beyond it on the Western shore, 

 but the Chatham being swept by a strong eddy into Oak 

 Cove was obligd to come to in the entrance of it much 

 sooner. 



Next morning we had westerly wind, but being favord 

 with a strong ebb tide we both weighd & plyd against a 

 pretty fresh breeze till towards noon when it fell nearly 

 calm & having got out of Admiralty Inlet we both came 

 to an Anchor on the outside near the North point of its 

 entrance. As Capt Vancouver & M"* Broughton were at 

 this time going ofif in a Boat to observe for the Latitude 

 & take bearing on a small Island about 4 or 5 miles to the 

 Northward of us I accompanied them to examine it, at the 

 same time for plants, but I found nothing different from 

 what I had before met with in the Arms — About the Rocks 

 were a number of black Sea pies of which we shot several 

 & found them good eating — Most part of the Island was 

 faced with a sandy cliff & coverd with Pines densely copsed 

 with Underwood. 



M*" Whidbey having receivd orders before we left the 

 Vessel to equip two Boats with the necessary arms & pro- 

 visions & to proceed to the Northward along the Eastern 

 shore of this gulph examining the different Inlets he might 

 fall in with till he came to a place on the North side where 

 the Chatham had anchored which Mr Broughton had named 

 Strawberry Bay, & which was pointed out as the place of 

 rendezvous. On our return from the small Islands we 

 found Mr Whidbey had gone off with the two Boats to 

 execute these orders & that the Vessels had been visited 

 by a few Natives who had nothing to dispose of but a 

 few Water Fowls particularly a blackish colourd species 

 of Auk with a hornlike excrescence rising from the ridge 



