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was the moft prudent method the people could pofllbly 

 have taken ; for had they adted in any other manner, and •- — -— -j 

 ftrove to have prevented them from dealing by force of June! 

 arms, not a man in either boat could have efcaped the ""^ '*^'" 

 vengeance of their numerous opponents. This plundering 

 party obtained an excellent booty in their ovi^n eflimation. 

 They ftole moft of the trading articles, tv/o mufquets, two 

 piftols, and fome of the people's clothes; and what old. 

 Sheenawaa feemed to regard as a thing of ineftimable va- 

 lue, was Mr. Crefsleman's quadrant, which he feized to- 

 gether with his ephemeris and requiUte tables. It was at 

 this time that they purchafed the fkins I have juft men- 

 tioned, Sheenaawa's people afFed:ing to traffic as a fort of 

 introduction to their depredations. During this fhort ex- 

 pedition our people had an opportunity of feeing that the 

 land on which Cape Hinchinbrooke is fituated is an ifland. 



In the afternoon of the 9th, being at Garden Ifland, I faw Saturday 9. 

 the Nootka turning in towards the port, and immediately 

 fent the whale-boat and yaul to her afTiftance. At {even 

 o'clock fhe anchored juft without the King George. Two 

 canoes came along-fide in the morning of the loth with Sunday 10. 

 only one fea-otter fkin. The Indians appeared rather fliy 

 on feeing the Nootka, which I cannot account for in any 

 other way than their having fired at fome of the natives 

 juft before they left Sutherland's Cove, and, as I was given 

 to underftand, wounded one of them. In the forenoon 

 captain Meares came on board the King George, and re- 

 quefted me to fend my carpenter on board his veffel to ex- 

 timine her mafts, pumps, and fides; which requcft I com- 

 plied with, although he had much work to do on tlie 

 fhip's account. Towards evening I went on ihore to viftt 

 our different parties at work, and had an account from the 



H h carpenter 



