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quaintance from Cheeiieecock came along-fide in two ^ \^f ^'^ 

 canoes ; they were out on a hunting expedition, and had ' — - — ' 

 three very good fea-otter fkins, which I bought, and made juiy* 

 them a trifling prefent. At noon we weighed and came °" '^ ^'^' 

 to fail with a light breeze from the South South Eaft. At 

 four o'clock the South Weft point of Montague liland 

 bore South Eaft, two leagues diftant : being then about 

 two miles from fliore, we founded in fixty-three fathoms 

 water, over a muddy bottom. At feven o'clock, obferv- 

 ing that we began to lofe ground very faft, although there 

 was a tv/o-knot breeze from the Weft South Weft, with 

 which we ftood to the South South Eaft, we prepared for 

 anchoring, and foon afterwards came-to in fixty-ftve fa- 

 thoms water, over a muddy bottom, with the kedge and 

 a haufer ; the South Weft point of Montague Ifland bear- 

 ing Eaft three quarters South, five miles, and the North 

 point of Foot Iftand North by Eaft, four or five leagues 

 diftant. I fuppofe the flood to have made foon after fix 

 o'clock, and come from the South Eaft half South, at 

 the rate of three miles an hour : it fet diredly towards 

 the entrance of the Prince of Wales's Pafiage. At nine 

 o'clock the tide made ftill ftronger, and though we had 

 our fails fet, with a gentle breeze from the Northward, 

 the kedge came home ; on this, we bent another haufer, 

 and veered it to the better end, which rode the fhip ; the 

 tide now going at the rate of three miles and an half an 

 hour. The flood being done at one in the morning, Tuefdaysi, 

 we weighed and came to fail : prefently afterwards a fine 

 breeze fprung up from the Weft South Weft, with which 

 we fteered to the Southward ; and at four o'clock were 

 well clear of the land, the South Weft point of Montague 

 Iftand bearing North North Eaft half Eaft, three leagues, 



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