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Menzies' Journal. 



Cypress Island. 



1792. 

 June 9tli. 



Deception Pass. 



June 10th. 



Common Trout 



(Salmo 



mykiss). 



June 11th. 



US where they lost their stream Anchor by the force & 

 rapidity of the / Tide which ran at the rate of about 5 miles 

 an hour & snappd the Cable as they were bringing up. As 

 often as the Tide slackend they used their endeavours by 

 every scheme they could think of to recover the lost Anchor 

 but without success & the loss of it was more severely felt 

 as it was the only one of the kind they had been supplied 

 with. 



We were likewise informd that early in the Morning 

 Mr. Whidbey had called along side of the Chatham after 

 having explored the first opening he was directed to enter, 

 which it seems he found to communicate by a narrow Chan- 

 nel with what hfe had before conceived to be the termination 

 of Port Gardner making the North East side of Admiralty 

 Inlet a fine large Island which obtaind the name of Whid- 

 bey's Island. After a short stay on board the Chatham, the 

 two Boats set off again to continue their examination of the 

 Continental shore to the North East ward. The Brewers 

 landed from the Discovery with their Utensils & began 

 to make Beer from the fresh branches of the Spruce, & 

 another party began watering from a small run at the 

 bottom of the Bay. 



In the forenoon of the loth the Chatham came into 

 the Bay & Anchord on the inside of us & in the after- 

 noon the two Boats returnd from the North ward having 

 made the Land to the Eastward of us which was pretty 

 high & hilly a group of Islands coverd with Pine Forests 

 to their very summits & surrounded with rocky shores & 

 rocky Channels. The bottom of this Bay was a stoney 

 beach on which the Seine was repeatedly hauled without 

 success & behind it was a small Pond in which was found 

 a particular variety of Trout I had not seen before with a 

 vermilion colourd spot near the lower angle of the Gills but 

 differing in no other respect from the common fresh water 

 Trout. The Bay was shelterd on the West side by an 

 Island but the Anchorage was much exposed to the South- 

 erly Wind. 



At day light on the nth we both weighd & made Sail 

 to the Northward through the Inlet leaving / Strawberry 

 Bay with a light breeze from the Southward & serene 

 pleasant Weather. About 8 we passed an opening leading 

 to the Eastward & enterd a wide & spacious opening of an 



