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A VOYAGE TO THE 



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1787. 

 April. 

 Sandajr 29. 



fhore, and walked a confiderable diftance, but could not 

 perceive the leaft trace of any inhabitants. Whilft the 

 people were drefTing fome pork and muflels for dinner, I 

 went in my whale-boat round the North point of the bay, 

 and could perceive the coaft of this ifland towards Prince 

 William's Sound for fix or feven leagues, without any ap- 

 pearance of an harbour, or even a fafe bay. I returned 

 into the bay again, and after taking fome refrefhment, we 

 proceeded towards the Ihips, where we arrived about nine 

 o'clock, without feeing any Indians during the whole day. 

 Having ftill light variable winds, chiefly from the North- 

 Monday 30. ward, I fent the whale-boat in the morning of the 30th to 

 found from the fhip acrofs the channel, and along the 

 coaft of an ifland which makes the Weft fide of the Chan- 

 nel. The weather was very fine and pleafant, but ftill no 

 Indians came near us. Towards evening the boat return- 

 ed from founding; they had, very foon after quitting the 

 bay, fifty and fixty fathoms water over a muddy bottom, 

 and in the mid channel, no ground, with all their line, 

 which was feventy fathoms. Clofe over to the ifland 

 there were forty and fifty fathoms water within a cable's 

 length of the rocks and beach; and they carried the fame 

 kind of foundings as far as the North extreme of the 

 ifland, when, the day being far advanced, they founded 

 no further. Short round this North point, in the direc- 

 tion of North Weft and Weft North Weft, the ofiicer who 

 went in the boat informed me was a deep found, in which 

 were the appearances of good harbours. As I was de- 

 firous of examining every place where there was a proba- 

 bility of meeting with inhabitants, I fet off early the next 

 morning with the whale-boats, accompanied by Captain 

 Dixon, to look into this Sound; but, previous to our 



fetting 



May. 

 Tuefday i 



