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^ ^^^^ ^" melted moft of the fnow, and every thing feemed to pro- 



V- — ' — -J mife the fpeedy approach of fummer. The fnrgeon, and 

 June. thofe people who had lately been ill, took a walk on fhorc 



Wednef, 20. on the 20th, and gathered a good quantity of water- 

 creffes, which they found growing near the frefh-water ri- 

 vulets. We caught plenty of flounders along-fide with hook 

 and line: thefe, with crabs, which were now very fine, 

 proved an excellent change from fait proviflons. Some of 

 the people in fifhing along-flde for flounders caught feverai 



Friday 22. cod and halibut. On this I fent the canoe on the 2 2d 

 out fome diftance into the bay to try for them, and they 

 foon returned with a load of fine halibut and cod. This 

 fuccefs induced me to fend her out frequently with a fifh- 

 ing party, and they caught confldcrably more than v/hat 

 was fuflicient for daily confumption ; fo that I ordered the 

 remainder to be faked for fea ftore. In the afternoon a 

 party of Indians vifited us, from whom I bought fome 

 good fea-otter fkins. They pointed towards the South 

 Weft, and gave me to underftand that we might procure 

 plenty of good furs from that quarter. This piece of in- 

 formation determined me to fend the boats on another ex- 



Sunday 24. pedition, and in the afternoon of the 24th I difpatched 

 the whale-boat and yaul on a trip to the South Weft part 

 of the Sound with provifions for a month, and a proper 

 afibrtment of trade. All the remaining part of the fhip's 

 company that could be fpared had leave given to recreate 

 themfelves on fhore. Some of them afcended the higheft 

 hills in the neighbourhood, on the fides of which they 

 found good quantities of Ihake-root, and a variety of 

 flowers in full bloom. About eight o'clock in the 

 evening I obferved two Indian boats and feveral canoes 

 come into the bay: they all landed on a fandy beacH, 

 5 which 



