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many others, were furnished me by the Rev. Dr. Kaye 

 (now Dean of Lincoln), and, as a mark of my esteem and 

 regard for that gentleman, I named the island after him, 

 Kaye's Island. It is eleven or twelve leagues in length ; 

 but its breadth is not above a league or a league and a half 

 in any part of it. 



" On this island there are a considerable number of pines, 

 and the whole seems covered with a broad girdle of wood. 

 In the passage from the ship to the shore we saw a great 

 many fowls sitting upon the water, or flying about in flocks 

 or pairs, the chief of which were a few quebrantahuessoses, 

 divers, ducks, or large peterels, gulls, shags, and burres. 

 At the place where we landed, a fox came from the verge 

 of the wood, and eyed us with very little emotion, walking 

 leisurely without any signs of fear. He was of a reddish- 

 yellow colour, like some of the skins we bought at Nootka, 

 but not of a large size. 



" We were now threatened with a fog and a storm, and 

 I wanted to get into some place to stop the leak before 

 we encountered another gale. These reasons induced me 

 to steer for an inlet, which we had no sooner reached 

 than the weather became so foggy that we could not see 

 a mile before us, and it became necessary to secure the 

 ships in some place, to wait for a clearer sky. With this 

 view, I hauled close under a cape which I now called Cape 

 Hinchinbroke, and anchored before a small cove a little 

 within the cape, and about a quarter of a mile from the 

 shore,. 



" At some short intervals the fog cleared away, and gave 

 us a sight of the lands around us. The westernmost point 

 we had in sight on the north shore, bore north north-west 

 half west, two leagues distant. Between this point and the 

 shore, under which we were at anchor, is a bay about three 

 leagues deep ; on the south-east side of which there are two 

 or three coves, such as that before in which we had 

 anchored ; and in the middle some rocky islands. 



" To these islands Mr. Gore was sent in a boat, in hopes 

 of shooting some eatable birds. But he hardly got to them 

 before about twenty natives made their appearance in two 

 large canoes ; on which he thought proper to return to the 

 ships, and they followed him. They would not venture 

 alongside, but kept at some distance hallooing aloud and 

 alternately clasping and extending their arms, and in a short 

 time began a kind of song exactly after the manner of those 

 at Nootka. Their heads were also powdered with feathers. 

 One man held out a white garment, which we interpreted as 

 a sign of friendship, and another stood up in the canoe quite 

 naked for almost a quarter of an hour, with his arms 



