Mendcs' Journal. 



Nootka. 



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delivered up to us, that he made the necessary arrangements 

 for retaining posession of it. The Store Ship had landed 

 the greatest part of her Cargo into Store houses, & the 

 Chatham was to be left behind for the Winter in charge of 

 it & the Settlement. Even the mode of putting us in poses- 

 sion of the Territory was agreed upon, for it was said that 

 S'" Quadra was to deliver up all the Houses Gardens &c as 

 they stood, agreeable to his orders & the wishes of his / 

 Catholic Majesty, & that before he went away he was to 

 haul down the Spanish Colours on the Fort & on our hoist- 

 ing the English Colours, he was then to salute the British 

 Flag. — But having now explaind himself more fully on this 

 subject he declard that he did not conceive himself author- 

 izd from the information he obtaind from the Traders on 

 the Coast, to give up any more than the small corner of the 

 Cove occupied by Mr. Mears in building his Vessel, which 

 was not above a hundred yards wide in any direction, & 

 which he conceivd would fulfill the tenor of the Convention. 

 He was willing likewise to leave us the use of the Houses & 

 Gardens until the pleasure of his Court should be known. 

 But Captain Vancouver who was not impowered to enter 

 into any discussion could not accept of the place on these 

 limited conditions, & the correspondence broke up, both 

 parties agreeing to referr the business to the two Courts at 

 home. Soon after coming to this determination S'" Quadra 

 early on the 22^ of Sep"" sailed in the Brig Activa for Cali- 

 fornia to forward his dispatches parting with us in the most 

 friendly manner, & on his way to the Southward he touchd 

 at the entrance of De Fuca's Straits & evacuated the Settle- 

 ment which had been established there but a few months 

 before, sending from thence L* Fidalgo with the Ship 

 Princessa to relieve Lt Camano & remain at Nootka with 

 the Troops in charge of the Settlement for the Winter. 



/ Our plan being thus deranged we necessarily remaind 

 behind sometime to finish our repairs & take on board of 

 both Vessels as much of the Stores Provision & articles of 

 trafic as they could well stow to supply their immediate 

 wants, the rest were all returnd on board the Store Ship 

 who was to proceed with them to Port Jackson New South 

 Wales, & from thence return to us here next Summer with 

 such Stores &c as that Settlement could spare to supply our 

 wants. 



1792. 

 Sept. 15th. 



Sept. 22n(l. 



Nunez Gaona, 

 I.e., Neeah 

 Bay. 



