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Menzies' Journal. 



Nootka. 



1792. 

 Aug. 28tU. 



The Natives gathering fast about them prevented their 

 carrying off the Body of their unfortunate companion — 

 They had sufficient opportunity of revenging his death, but 

 prudence suggested to them the forlorn situation of their 

 helpless Officers, which if alive might only tend to hurry 

 their destruction, for they plainly saw by their audacious 

 behavious shouting & hallowing that the Natives were ready 

 for any mischief. 



Franklin's recital of the transactions on shore created 

 much alarm on board, where it seems no look out had been 

 kept to send them any assistance — ^An attack was now 

 expected to be made on the Ship in the night by the Natives 

 in their Canoes, which in a state of irresolution hurry & 

 confusion induced them to cut the Cable & stand out to Sea. 

 At this sight what must have been the feelings of the two 

 unfortunate Gentlemen on shore surrounded by armed auda- 

 cious Savages ready to execute their inexorable cruelties. 



Next morning Mr. Neil the first Mate was sent on shore 

 with the Cutter manned & armed & an Indian that remaind 

 on board all night who landed to enquire after the Gentlemen, 

 he soon after returnd with the melancholy information of 

 their being both murderd / on the preceeding evening & that 

 their Bodies were cut up & divided amongst the Chiefs. 

 This account so exasperated the Boats Crew that they 

 expended all their ammunition firing amongst the Natives, 

 one of them in a frenzy of defiance kept waving a Hat & 

 Shirt in his hand which they supposd belongd to either of the 

 Gentlemen & he was fired at several times before he fell. — 

 Such is the account of this event from the general informa- 

 tion of the Officers & Crew of the Doedalus. 



After dinner I accompanied Cap* Vancouver with some 

 of the Officers to pay our respects to Don Quadra Governor 

 & Commandant of the Settlement. We found him on shore 

 at a decent house two story high, built of Planks with a 

 Balcony in the front of the Upper Story after the manner 

 of the Spanish Houses, One end of the ground floor was 

 occupied as a Guard Room, & the other as a Kitchen & 

 Servants' Hall, while the Upper Story was divided into 

 small apartments & occupied by the Governor & his Officers, 

 who were separated by a large Hall in the middle where they 

 commonly dined. On our landing the Guard was turned 

 out in honor to Cap* Vancouver, & the Governor & his 



