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Menzies' Journal. 



Hanson Island. 



1792. 



July 21st. 

 First collected 

 by Menzies In 

 Alaska, 1787. 



July 27tli. 



Havannah 

 Channel and 

 Call Creek. 



Fife Passage 

 or Sound. 



our present mode of living. — I have also met with the 

 Menziesia ferruginea which I had not observd in any part 

 of our more interior Navigation or in New Georgia, hence 

 it is very probable that this rare plant is only to be found 

 towards the outer skirts of the Coast, 



/ The weather being at this time rather unsettled & 

 squally, Mr. Whidbey was sent one day in the Cutter to 

 examine some Bays on the opposite side of the Channel 

 between us & the Village for a more commodious harbour 

 in case it should be found necessary to remove the Ship into 

 a place of greater safety. I accompanied him to examine 

 the produce of the Country, but found nothing different 

 from what I had before seen in other parts, we returnd on 

 board again in the evening & had not long quitted the place 

 we had been examining, when as we afterwards understood 

 the Chatham came into the Channel & Anchord nearly off it, 

 though we saw nothing of her. 



Soon in the afternoon of the 27th Mr. Broughton came 

 on board the Discovery in his Boat & acquainted us that they 

 had anchord with the Chatham a little to the Westward of 

 us on the preceeding evening, & in attempting to weigh this 

 morning in order to join us, they found their Anchor had 

 hook'd a Rock, which baffled all their endeavours to clear 

 with the strongest purchase they were able to make use of. — 

 After parting with us on the i8th they enterd a Channel 

 which carried them live or six leagues to the North West 

 Ward before it terminated, they then continued tracing the 

 Continental Shore through a number of winding Channels, 

 some of which were very narrow & yet so deep that they 

 sometimes could not find bottom with a hundred fathoms 

 of line, & even obligd to Anchor at one time close to the 

 Shore in / upwards of 70 fathom. They however per- 

 severd in their object, sometimes with their Boat, & 

 sometimes with the Vessel, till they came out by a Channel 

 nearly opposite to us on the preceeding day, having by their 

 track surrounded a large group of Islands which obtaind the 

 name of Broughton' s Archipelago. They saw some Villages 

 & were in several places visited by a number of the Natives 

 from whom they now & then got a small supply of Fish but 

 they saw very few Furs or any other thing for traffic. In one 

 place where they had but little wind the Chatham was drove 

 on shore by the force of the Tide but as it fortunately 



