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ver perpetuated the "name of the seat of my ancestors." In 

 Point Hunter he showed his regard for " my very particular 

 friend and physician," Dr. Hunter, In Cape Henry and 

 Englefield Bay he commemorated his " regard for my much 

 esteemed friend, Sir Henry Englefield," Cape Decision he 

 so named because he there decided that this cape formed the 

 north west continental point, as Cape Flattery formed the 

 south west point of the archipelago. On Sept, 5th, 1793, the 

 great name-father of the coast of North West America reach- 

 ed Nootka and sailed off to the Sandwich Islands there to 

 winter. On April 14th, 1794 he returned to finish his survey 

 and signalized his return by naming Point Woronzow in hon- 

 our of the Russian Ambassador at the British Court, Lynn 

 Canal" he named after " the place of my nativity, Lynn in 

 Norfolk," About the 53rd, degree of north latitude one can 

 find on a good map Mussel Canal, Carter Bay, and Poison 

 Cove, These names commemorate one of the few deaths that 

 occurred during Vancouver's lengthy absence from England, 

 One fine June morning Mr. Barrie of Vancouver's vessel, the 

 " Discovery," went with three seamen in a boat to explore an 

 inlet. When they reached a cove they found and ate some 

 shell-fish. They were soon attacked with numbness in their 

 faces and extremitfes ; then their whole bodies became numb. 

 Mr. Barrie, alarmed at the symptoms, recommended them to 

 " pull for dear life," as violent exercise would induce perspira- 

 tion. The three sailors bent to their oars and, like the sturdy 

 British seamen they were, they "pulled for the shore." On 

 landing, one of them. Carter by name, rose to get out of the 

 boat, but sank down. He was tenderly cared for by the officer 

 and his two mates who had to a considerable degree recover- 

 ed, but he grew worse and died at mid-day on the pebble 

 shore, ministered to to the end by his staggering comrades, wead 

 and faint but dauntless in their dire extremity. Vancouver 

 mourned the loss of a "true m.an and a good sailor," and gave 

 the three names in commemoration of the event. Wooden 

 Rock, off Cape Ommancy, is a sailor's monument to a brother 

 sailor. Wooden, who there fell overboard and was drowned in 

 the swirling tide. In his log Vancouver wrote he was " a good 

 man and an active sailor." Point Conclusion indicates that 

 the task was done and that the great seaman may now turn 

 the bows of his vessels homeward. On his way out he names 

 Cape Addington after the " Speaker of the House of Com- 

 mons" and reached Nootka on September 2nd ; leaves on i6th 

 October 1794 and arrives in the Thames 20th October, 1795, to 



