NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 



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CHAP. 

 XIV. 



1787. 



very little fait; and I think very little of that article can 

 be procured about the ifland, except on the Weft fide, 

 where it may be bought in great abundance. The whole September, 

 day about fourteen hands were employed in killing and " *>" ^ • 

 faking for fea ftore, and by the evening we had falted 

 about two tierces. A number of the large hogs we fkin- 

 ned, finding their fkins of great ufe, for the purpofe of 

 leathering the foot of our fails. To preferve the fkins we 

 let them lie twenty-four hours in pickle, and then hung 

 them up to dry. After they had been two or three days 

 hanging out, we made them up in bundles, and, by air- 

 ing them now and then, found they would keep any length, 

 of time. At noon, fqually unfettled weather, with fome 

 rain, the wind about Eaft North Eafi: ; the Northernmoft 

 parts of the ifland in fight Weft by North ; the Eaft part 

 ol the ifland covered with fqualls ; our diftance from the 

 neareft part of the ifland about five miles. I could not 

 learn from thefe people of any fhip having been lately at 

 this ifland. 



Saturday, September 2gth, i7<S7, light variable winds, Saturday 29, 

 with frequent fhowers of rain, a very heavy fwell from the ' 

 North Eaft rolling in on fhore, which made the furf very 

 furious on the rocks. At four in the morning, although 

 only four or five miles from the fhore, the weather was fo 

 thick, that we could not fee it : at half paft five in the morn- 

 ing it cleared up a little, when the Northernmoft part of 

 the land in fight bore Weft by North half North, eight 

 or ten leagues diftant, and the Eaft point bore South by 

 Eaft. At fix in the evening a light breeze at Eaft, with 

 open cloudy weather. Two canoes remained v/ith us 

 until this time, when they went for the fhore. At eight 



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