Menzies' Journal. 



Safety Cove. 103 



of Lieu* Rich*^ Hergist who was charged with this Ship as 

 Naval Agent & Mr. Win. Gooch who was coming out in her 

 to join the Discovery as an Astronomer together with one of 

 the Seamen who were massacred on shore by the Natives at 

 Woahoo one of the Sandwich Islands. 



In this situation of affairs Cap' Vancouver resolvd on 

 closing the first seasons examination of the Coast, & go to 

 Nootka with both Vessels to join the Store Ship ; for the 

 Weather was now become so cold wet & uncomfortable that 

 the men were no longer able to endure the fatiguing hard- 

 ships of distant excursions in open Boats exposd to the cold 

 rigorous blasts of a high northern situation with high dreary 

 snowy mountains on every side, performing toilsome labor 

 on their Oars in the day, & alternately watching for their 

 own safety at night, with no other Couch to repose upon 

 than the Cold Stony Beach or the wet mossy Turf in damp 

 woody situations, without having shelter sufficient to screen 

 them from the inclemency of boisterous weather, & enduring 

 at times the tormenting pangs of both hunger & thirst, yet 

 on every occasion / struggling who should be most forward 

 in executing the orders of their superiors to accomplish the 

 general interest of the Voyage. — In short it is but justice to 

 say that on this arduous service both Officers & Men were 

 hourly exposed to various hardships & dangers, yet went 

 cheerfully through the fatiguing operations of the Summer 

 without murmur. And if we look back on the different 

 winding Channels & Armlets which the Vessels & Boats 

 traversed over in following the Continental Shore ever since 

 they enterd De Fuca's Streights, it will readily be allowd 

 that such an intricate & laborious examination could not have 

 been accomplishd in so short a time without the cooperating 

 exertions of both Men & Officers whose greatest pleasure 

 seemd to be in performing their duty with alacrity & encoun- 

 tering the dangers & difficulties incidental to such service 

 with a persevering intrepidity & manly steadiness that 

 afforded a most pleasing omen to the happy issue of our 

 future endeavours in this arduous undertaking. 



Both Vessels now directed their course out to Sea by 

 the North end of Calverts Island about the Latitude of 51° 

 46' North through a Channel formd on the North side by a 

 numerous group of Islands of a moderate height wooded 

 with Pines. The wind being against us we were obligd to 



1702. 

 Aug. 18tb. 



Aug. 19th. 



Hakai Cbannel. 



