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NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 263. 



from whence they came, in order to give their tribe intel- ^ *^^ ^' 



liorence of our beins; in the harbour. Towards evenino; ^- ^ 



. 1787. 



our firft viftters came along-Ude, and the two young men Auguit. 



again requefted to deep on board, which I permitted, and 



Tofeph Woodcock, one of my apprentices, flept on fhore 



with their party. When the Indians left us, they did no^t 



go to their habitations round the North point, as on the 



preceding evening, but took up their abode in a fmall bay 



near the fhip, where they eredled a miferable hut, infuf- 



licient to keep out either wet or cold. 



Not having any fuccefs in hauling the feine near the 

 jQiip, I fent the whale-boat with the feine round a point 

 to the North Eaft ; round that point they proceeded up 

 an arm of the Sound, which took a diredion about North 

 and North by Eaft, for four or five miles : this arm has. 

 two or three fmall woody iflands lying at the entrance,, 

 and is navigable for a fhip of any fize, almoft the whole 

 w^ay up j at the head of it they found a fmall frefh-water 

 rivulet, where they caught a few good falmon and a great 

 num.her of very indifferent ones, moft of v/hich were fuf- 

 fered to efcape. The indifferent falmon appear to be a: 

 different kind from the others, and I am inclined to think 

 were out of feafon. They had a moft difagreeable colour,, 

 to appearance as if in a ftate of putrefadiion ; and the upper 

 jaw had a number of large teeth projecting almofi: right out 

 of it. Since our arrival I had frequently feen in the frefli- 

 water creeks (in which places thefe kind of falmon get a 

 confiderable height) many of them dying, and great num- 

 bers on the banks quite dead ; indeed tliere is reafon to 

 fuppofe that few of them furvive the approach of winter, 

 but the other fort keep in deep water, and abour the 



mouths. 



