CHAP. 



XI. 



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NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 243 



At ten o'clock in the morning of the 2 2d, the long- 

 boat appearing in fight, I fent the whale-boat to her affift- 

 ance if it fhould be neceffary ; at noon fhe came along- 

 fide, and I found all the crew in good health- In this "" ^^^^' 

 trip they had experienced a great deal of very bad weather, 

 and had not met with fuch good fuccefs as we expedledj 

 their purchafes being about forty prime fkins and a num- 

 ber of inferior ones. They fell in with numbers of the 

 Kodiac Indians, who always behaved in the moft friendly 

 manner, as did all the inhabitants of the river. During 

 this expedition they were up about a league above Trading 

 Bay, on the oppofite fhore, where they found good and 

 fafe anchorage for fhipping, and a greater number of in-' 

 habitants than in any other part of the river. 



Having clear pleafant weather on the 23d, the powder Monday 23. 

 was fent to Garden Ifland to be dried and lifted, and the 

 cooper was employed in repairing the calks which were defec- 

 tive : a party were employed in getting fire-wood on board, 

 and others in getting the fhip ready for fea. In the afternoon 

 of the 24th our wooding and watering was completed, and Tuefday =4. 

 every thing from the fhore was got on board. We lopped 

 off all the branches off the higheft tree on Garden Illand, 

 and fixed a ftaff about ten feet long at the top, with a 

 wooden vane on it, arid near the bottom w^as infcribed the 

 fhip's name, with the year and day of the month. Every 

 thing being ready for fea at fix o'clock, we urimoored and 

 hove fhort on the befl: bower ; but it being then calm, we 

 could not proceed out of the port. However, at two 

 o'clock the next morning a breeze fprung up from the wednef. z^. 

 Eaftward, with which we weighed and got under fail, 

 and by four, being clear of the Cove, the boats were 

 hoifted in. 



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