NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 



were obliged to warp in. In heaving up our ftream an- 

 chor, the ftock broke clofe to the ihank, and as it was 

 an iron ftock, the anchor was rendered ufelefs. This ac- 

 cident was likely to prove a very unlucky one, as I had 

 fpared Captain Dixon an anchor in the room of one which 

 he loft at Atoui; fo that I now had not a fmall one to 

 fteady the fhip with except a hedge, which would not 

 hold with the leaft wind. By three o'clock, having 

 warped the ihip into a good birth, we anchored with 

 the beft bower in feven fathoms and a half water over a 

 muddy bottom, and moored with a hawfer made faft to 

 the North fhore. When moored, we lay in five fathoms 

 at low water. The people were employed in getting my 

 long-boat and the whale-boat belonging to each fhip ready 

 for going up the Sound on a trading expedition, under the 

 diredlion of Captain Dixon ; and in the mean time I pro- 

 pofed ftaying with the fhips, in order to have them hauled 

 on fhore, for the purpofe of cleaning and paying their 

 bottoms. We could alfo fill our water, and do many 

 other neceflary works, this harbour being a very conve- 

 nient one for all our various employments. 



CHAP. 

 X. 



1787. 



May. 



Friday 4. 



Next morning at daylight the boats fet out on their Saturdays 

 expedition, and by five o'clock were out of fight clear of 

 the harbour. Our various operations now began. I fent ; 



a large party to clear away the ftones on a part of the 

 beach, where I intended to lay the ihip. At ten o'clock 

 we began to haul her in, and by noon fhe was placed. 

 Some hands were employed in cutting pine branches to 

 bream with. The cooper was fent on fhore, with two 

 afllftants, to brew fpruce beer, and others were bufied in 

 the hold. In the afternoon the ftarboard-fide of the fliip 



was 



