72 



Men^ics' Journal. 



Bute Inlet. 



1792. 

 July 2nd. 



Waddington 

 Harbour. 



Near Arran 

 Rapids, to 

 north of 

 Stewart Id. 



Yuculta 

 Bapids. 



only articles of traffic they had were Bows & Arrows which 

 they readily barterd for small Trinkets. This indicating 

 their peaceable disposition they were sufferd to follow the 

 Boats till they stopped for the night & then they quietly 

 went to the opposite shore where a large smoke was seen 

 issuing from the woods. 



Early on the following morning these Natives again 

 returnd to the Party with more Bows & Arrows to dispose 

 of, which they no sooner had done than they again peaceably 

 departed & our party continud tracing the Arm in a North- 

 erly direction between two ridges of high mountains whose 

 summits were coverd with snow which was now dissolving 

 & producing several beautiful Cascades on both sides, but 

 their progress was tardy & toilsome owing to the streng'-.h 

 of the Current which was found pretty constant against 

 them the whole day. They stopped for the night near the 

 head of the Arm where the Water was of a very pale 

 colour & nearly fresh from the vast supply of torrents & 

 streams that emptied into it from the sides of the Mountains, 

 & soon after they set out the next morning, they found it 

 terminate in a shallow sandy flat, skirted by a low marshy 

 plain & backd with high Mountains in about the Latitude of 

 50° 44' North, which was about nine leagues from its 

 entrance. As they were putting back off this flat they 

 suddenly deepend their Water to 70 & 80 fathoms, which 

 shews the great depth of these Arms even close to their ter- 

 mination. / The same cause which retarded their progress 

 on the proceeding day was now favorable in accelerating 

 their return back the Arm, so that on the following morning 

 they reachd the place where they were visited by the Natives, 

 & where they had seen the smoke they now discoverd a 

 pretty considerable village of upwards of twenty houses & 

 about 30 Canoes laying before it ; from which they concluded 

 that its Inhabitants could not be far short of a hundred & 

 fifty. In passing this Village they purchasd from the 

 Natives a large supply of fresh Herrings for Nails, & 

 immediately after enterd a narrow Channel leading to the 

 Westward, through which the Water rushd in Whirlpools 

 with such rapidity that it was found extremely difficult even 

 to track the Boats along shore against it, & this could hardly 

 be accomplishd had it not been for the friendly activity of 

 the Natives who in the most voluntary manner afforded them 



