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perhaps none of the natives further to the Weftward than ^ ^^j^^f ^' 

 this Sound had an opportunity of having any intercourfe ^- — — ' 

 with her, and by that means happily efcaped the diforder. AugnL 

 After I left this miferable habitation, the feine was hauled, "" *^ '*' 

 and we caught a good fupply of fine falmon. In the 

 evening, our late vifiter from the Northward returned 

 and flept on board, together with the reft of his party, 

 and we hauled his boat up along-fide. He informed me 

 that the weather was fo bad that he could not poflibly get 

 home; however, he fet off again at day-light the next 

 morning to make another trial. In the forenoon part of Monday 13; 

 the {hip's company had leave given them to go on fhore, and 

 though rainy weather came on, yet they were fo intent 

 on picking Indian tea, and berries of various kinds, that 

 few of them returned on board before the approach of 

 evening. In the courfe of the day, our neighbours in the 

 Sound brought us a few fea-otter fkins, and fome others 

 of various kinds; and a few of the natives that had been 

 out on a hunting party returned with three very fine fea- 

 otter fkins juft taken from the animal. 



On the 14th part of the ihip's company were em- Tuefdayi4. 

 ployed in wooding and watering, others hauled the feine, 

 and caught a fupply of good falmon, and the fawyers were 

 bufied in fawing cedar into fheathing-boards. 



At nine o'clock in the morning of the 15th the Iono-_ wedntf. 15, 

 boat returned from her expedition to the Eaftward; fhe 

 had been juft to the Eaftward of Cape Edgecombe, whel-e 

 they met with fome inhabitants, and purchafed about 

 twenty pretty good fea-otter fkins. Between the harbour 

 we lay in and the Cape, they fell in with a ftrait about a 



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