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Menzics Journal. 



Admiralty Inlet. 



1792. 

 June 6th. 



June 7th. 



June 8th. 



Cypress Id. 



Orcas and 

 smaller islands 

 of the San 

 Juan group. 



population, & that in this Country neighbouring tribes are 

 generaly at War with each other, which from their savage 

 disposition & inexorable cruelties makes great havock 

 amongst the weakest Tribes, our surprize at the fewness 

 of Inhabitants will in some measure cease. But there is 

 another cause which may have powerfuly co-operated to 

 occasion this depopulation & that in the advantages & 

 novelty which a traffic with civiHzed Nations has held out 

 of late years by trading vessels along the Sea Coast, which 

 has no doubt been a sufficient allurement to entice consider- 

 able emigrations from the interior Country, & this idea is 

 by no means inconsistent with their roving dispositions & 

 ways of life, for they seem to have no permanent or fixd 

 habitations, but wander about from place to place just as 

 the whim or necessity of the moment impells them, or as it 

 happens to suit their conveniency for procuring subsistance 

 either by fishing or hunting. 



/ Most part of the 7th of June was calm till 4 in the 

 afternoon when a light breeze set in from the Westward 

 with which we both weighd & stood to the Northward near 

 the Eastern side of the Gulph & having gone about 5 or 6 

 leagues we came to an Anchor again in the evening near 

 some Islands & broken land on the North side. 



The forenoon of the 8th was mostly calm with a strong 

 Tide running to the Southward, which detaind us till it 

 changd in our favor about 3 in the afternoon, when both 

 vessels weighd & began plying to the Northward for an 

 opening in that direction, but it soon after fell calm, & the 

 Discovery with the assistance of her Boats was able to get 

 into Strawberry Bay on the East side of the opening near 

 the entrance where she came to an Anchor at 6 in the 

 evening, while the Chatham was impelled by a strong flood 

 Tide into an opening a little more to the Eastward, in which 

 situation as neither helm nor canvass had any power over 

 her, all were alarmd for her safety & anxious to hear of 

 her fate. Mr Broughton himself was not at this time on 

 board he went off in the forenoon in a Boat to finish his 

 Survey of the Islands that were to the Westward of us, on 

 the North side of the Gulph, & as the rugged appearance 

 of these seemd to offer a new field for my researches I 

 accompanied him by a friendly invitation. 



