1787. 



April. 

 Tuefday 24. 



208 AVOYAGETOTHE 



only to wait in this place for an opportunity of proceed- 

 ing up. Towards evening our vifitors left us, and paddled 

 out of the bay, after ftealing feveral fifliing-lines that 

 were hanging overboard. The only wind to which this 

 bay is expofed is at South Weft, and with that wind a 

 veffel may run before it into the harbour, leaving the 

 North point on the larboard hand. After hauling clofe 

 round, and bringing that point on with the South point of 

 the bay, a fhip may anchor and run a haufer to the trees 

 to fteady with ; in which Htuation there are four and a half 

 and five fathoms water over a foft muddy bottom. 



WeJnef. 25. On the 25th wc got fome water off for prefent ufe, and 

 the feine was hauled, but without fuccefs. Part of the 

 \ fhip's company were fent on £hore on the 26th to gather 

 fhell-fiili, which were the only refrefhment this place was 

 known to afford. The only fpace to v/alk in was along 

 the beach, the adjacent country being entirely covered with 

 fnow. There were plenty of wild geefe and ducks about, but 

 fo very fliy, that we could not get within fhot of them. In 

 a walk I took along; the beach I faw the remains of two 

 Indian huts, and a quantity of wood that had been cut 

 down with edge-tools. The cuts in the wood were fo 

 large and fair, as to convince me they were made by tools 

 of a different kind to thofe ufed by the Indians: I there- 

 fore concluded that the Ruflians had vifited this place the 

 laft autumn, not fuppofiiig that the people of any other 

 nation had been in thefe feas. 



No Indians coming near us, I determined to leave this 

 bay the iirft opportunity. Accordingly, at four o'clock 

 in the morning of the 27th, having a light breeze from 



the 



