Mensics' Journal. 



Burrard Inlet. 



6i 



that our people were the first Europeans with which they 

 had had any immediate intercourse. 



After quitting this Inlet on the following day they soon 

 after enterd another Arm leading to the Northward about 

 a mile & a quarter wide & formed on both sides by ridges of 

 stupendous snowy Mountains rising almost perpendicular 

 from the Water's edge. Near the entrance they passed 

 some Rocky Islands on which they shot a few Sea Pies, & 

 the water appearing very soon whitish & muddy indued 

 them to try frequently for Soundings but they could find 

 no bottom with near a hundred fathoms of line. After run- 

 ing up about 5 leagues they found it to terminate a little 

 beyond the Latitude of 50° North in two shallow Bays 

 chokd up with drift wood & skirted with a small track of 

 low marshy land backd by high snowy Mountains. In 

 returning back from the head of this Arm they were obligd 

 to bring up pretty soon for the night on account of blowing 

 & rainy weather. At this place they were visited by a few 

 Indians who behavd very peaceably. 



As they were pursuing their examination back the Arm 

 on the following day, they found some branches going off 

 on the West side, making a number of Islands some of them 

 pretty large & all coverd with Pines, so that they were two 

 days & a half before they got out again to the great North 

 West Arm, which after pursuing its Northern shore for 

 about 5 or 6 leagues further they still found it to preserve 

 its spacious appearance, the Mountains on the right side of 

 it to the South / West were high & coverd with Snow & 

 an Island appeard at a little distance from them in mid 

 Channel. 



About noon on the 17th they enterd another narrow Arm 

 which carried them to the North-ward in a winding direc- 

 tion about 40 miles between two ridges of high steep snowy 

 mountains — they did not reach the head of it till the after- 

 noon of the following day when they found it terminated 

 in low marshy land about the Latitude of 50° 52' North & 

 Longitude 235° 18' East, where they saw two Huts & some 

 Indians curing Fish, some of which they easily procurd for 

 small Trinkets — In this branch they also met with whitish 

 water but no Soundings with a hundred fathoms of Line, 

 nor no regular Tides towards the head of it but a constant 

 drain down. 



1792. 

 June 23rd. 



Howe Sound. 



Bo wen, 

 Gambler, and 

 Anvil Ids. 



Jervis Inlet. 



