114 



Mensics' Journal. 



Nootka. 



1792. 

 Sept. 1st. 

 Lieutenant 

 Hergist of 

 Vancouver, etc. 



Ingrah.Tn and 

 others were 

 wrong in stat- 

 ing that the 

 Spaniard.s were 

 the first to 

 complete the 

 circumnavi- 

 gation of V.!. 

 The Spaniards 

 themselves 

 never made the 

 claim and their 

 journals show 

 that they were 

 far behind 

 Vancouver's 

 boats and 

 ships. 



Tahsis of the 

 charts. 

 Hannapa of 

 Meares. Vov., 

 109, 229, 254. 



/ The first of September in consequence of the death 

 of Mr. Hargist, Lieutenant Hanson of the Chatham was 

 appointed to fill up his place as Naval Agent on board the 

 Doedalus & Mr. James Johnstone Master of the Chatham 

 was promoted to fill the Vacancy. 



The Chatham having been previously prepared was with 

 the preceeding night's Tide which rose about ten feet hauled 

 on the Beach to view her bottom after the heavy thumping 

 she sustaind on the Rocks in Queen Charlotte's Sound. — At 

 low water they saw her Keel — the false one was broke in 

 two places & several pieces of Copper wxre knockd off the 

 bottom, but the greatest damage was the foot of the Stear 

 being a good deal shatterd & most of the gripe at the scarf- 

 ing to the Keel broke off. To repair these damages it was 

 necessary to haul the Vessel on Blocks, but before that could 

 be done she must be lightened by starting the Water & land- 

 ing her Stores & Provisions which was immediately set 

 about. 



About noon the two small vSpanish Vessels which we 

 left behind in July last in Desolation Sound arrivd in the 

 Cove — they staid only one night & saild next morning for 

 Mexico, we had the pleasure however of finding our friends 

 all well after circumnavigating the great Island, for they 

 followd us through Johnstone's Streights & came out to Sea 

 at Queen Charlotte's Sound, & keeping close in with Cape 

 Scott, they came through an / inner passage between that & 

 Scotts Islands. 



We were not long in the Sound when we were visited by 

 Maquinna the Chief of the District together with his Brother 

 & Families, who came on hearing of our arrival from the 

 back part of the Sound where they had taken up their 

 winter residence about ten leagues off. 



At Hanapa, a Chief mentioned in Mears's Voyage, also 

 paid us a Visit, together with his Son who had through his 

 intercourse with the English Traders acquird a smattering 

 knowledge of the English Language, & pronouncd & under- 

 stood a number of words very distinctly ; indeed he seemd 

 to have a quick & ready comprehension in acquirements of 

 this kind, as evinced from the stay the Spaniards made in 

 the Sound he was equally conversant in their language, & 

 was remarkably pertinent in his enquiries about the state of 

 friendship which now subsisted between the two Nations 



