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Mcnzies' Journal. 



Queen Charlotte Sound. 



1792. 

 July 12th. 



By Nodales 

 Cbannel. 



Queen Charlotte 

 Sd. had been 

 visited and 

 named six 

 years earlier 

 by Capt. 

 Strange in the 

 Experiment. 



Kwakiutl, the 

 language 

 spoken here, is 

 different from 

 Nootkan, but 

 the two peoples 

 frequently 

 intermarried. 



pect of a clear & unbounded horizon in a North West direc- 

 tion, which from the distance they ran they had no doubt of 

 being the open Sea nearly about the Latitude of 51° North & 

 upwards of one hundred miles in a direct line from the 

 Vessels, but they could not put off time to wait till noon to 

 ascertain their situation more accurate by their meridian 

 altitude, as their stock of provision was nearly expended & 

 a fresh breeze from the Westward was now favorable / for 

 their return, with which they set out for the Vessels at 

 five in the morning & in some part of their way by a different 

 route more Southerly to that in which they went, as it was 

 Mr. Johnston's wish to find a more eligible Channel for the 

 Vessels to go through than by the Rapids which was the 

 only part he most dreaded, but their provision being wholly 

 expended indued him to relinquish the exploring of any 

 passage of uncertain direction to the Southward which had 

 the least chance of protracting their return., they therefore 

 hastend night & day to join the Ships which they did about 

 two in the morning on the 12th of July harassed with 

 hunger & fatigue being for the last two days upon a single 

 scanty meal & without any rest or out of the Boats for the 

 last 24 hours. 



On the first day of their exploring they saw but very 

 few Natives & those were very shy notwithstanding every 

 enticing means was used to establish a confidential inter- 

 course, but as they approachd towards the sea coast Villages 

 & Natives were more numerous than in any part they had 

 yet examined & they were not a little surprized to find that 

 many of them were arrivd with Muskets which they could 

 handle & use with much ease & great dexterity. The 

 Natives near the Sea Coast spoke the same language as the 

 Nootka Tribe, & some of them could blab several English 

 words, from which it evidently appeard that they have had 

 some late intercourse with the English or American Traders. 

 They also talkd much / of Maquinna the Chief of Nootka 

 wSound with whom they seemd to have kept up a considerable 

 commercial intercourse as they spoke of having receivd from 

 him almost every article of Traffic in their posession such 

 as Cloths Muskets &c. — These Muskets did not appear to 

 be of English Manufactory as their Barrels were securd to 

 the Stocks by means of Iron hoops, so that it appears 

 extremely probable that Maquinna has been the grand agent 



