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^ xiif ^' They remained here fome time without feeing any inhabit- 

 «« — - — ' ants; and as the wind had fet in from the South Eaft, 

 Auguii. which prevented them from proceeding any further in that 

 e ne . 15. j{j.ejf];iQj^^ they were preparing to return back again, when 

 a canoe made its appearance with iix people in her, from 

 whom they procured fome fea-otter fkins, and foon after- 

 wards they were vifited by a few other canoes; but the 

 people were not by any means fo numerous as might na- 

 turally have been expelled in fo fine a fituation. Their 

 vifiters gave them to underftand, that a veffel with two 

 mafts had lately anchored near the place where the boat 

 then lay ; and from the articles of trade which the natives 

 poffefTed, I had fcarcely a doubt but this veffel was the 

 Queen Charlotte. The different articles our people faw 

 were hawks bells, tin kettles, buckles, and rings, all of 

 them the fame pattern with our own ; they had alfo a 

 Sandwich Idand calabafh, and a number of towes. The 

 boat lay in this fituation two days, during which time the 

 people were on fiiore, but they did not fee any appear- 

 ance of wood having been recently cut down, or any other 

 fign of a fiiip's crew having lately been on fiiore; fo that I 

 fhould fuppofe if the Queen Charlotte had anchored near this 

 fituation, it was in her paffage to King George's Sound; 

 and having wooded and watered before fiie left Prince 

 William's Sound, they would have no occafion to carry on 

 any operations of that fort at this place. Meffrs. Hill and 

 Hay ward obferved many of thofe people to be marked with 

 the fmall-pox, and made the fame obfervations there re- 

 fpeding that diforder that I had done in this harbour, 

 which was, that none under ten or twelve years of age 

 bore any marks of the diforder. 



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