QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS. 11 IJ 



Island, being ignorant of Dixon's name, and apparently of the fact that 

 there were several large islands.* The North West America, a 

 schooner of about 40 tons, built by Meares, at Nootka, in 1788, com- 

 manded by Eobert Funter, left Nootka shortly after the Washington, 

 and had returned to that place from a trading voyage in the Queen 

 Charlotte Islands on the 9th of June, 1789, when she was seized by the 

 Spaniards. As in his instructions to Captain William Douglas, com- Douglas and 

 manding the Iphigenia, and also in charge of the N. W. America, 

 Meares (Sept., 20, 1788,) specially directs that in the following summer 

 the JV. W. America should examine and trade along the east shore 

 of the Queen Charlotte Islands (which he calls the Great Island). It 

 is probable that the coast was visited early in 1788 by Funter. Douglas, 

 in the Iphigenia, quitted Nootka on June 3rd of the same year, sailed 

 northward between Queen Charlotte Islands and the mainland, and 

 afterwards visited the north coast of Graham Island, naming the 

 entrance to Masset Inlet M'Intire's Bay, the passage between North and 

 Graham Islands, (now called Parry Passagej, Cox's Channel, and a cove 

 in the south side of North Island Beal's Harbour. Douglas stayed 

 about a week in Parry Passage. His people are the first white men 

 absolutely known to have landed on the Queen Charlotte Islands 

 (p. 266), and in his narrative published by Meares, he gives some inter- 

 esting particulars of his intercourse with the natives. 



On the 29th of June, 1791, Joseph Ingraham, in the brig Hope, Intrraham . 

 of Boston, anchored in a harbour on the south- westf side of the Queen 

 Charlotte Islands, which he called Magee's Sound, after one of the 

 owners of his vessel. About these islands and the coast of the conti- 

 nent immediately adjacent to them he remained during the entire 

 summer, and having collected a large cargo of furs, sailed for Canton 

 in the autumn. He appears to have named two places on the north 

 coast Hancock's EiverJ and Craft's Sound, now called Masset and 

 Yirago Sound. 



The Columbia, Captain Gray, made a second voyage from Boston 

 in 1790-91, and was occupied trading on the east coast of the Queen 

 Charlotte Islands in August and September, 1791. Gray fell iu with 

 the Hope in this vicinity on July 23rd. He wintered at Clayoquot, 

 Vancouver Island, and built a small vessel there, the Adventure. 



On August 22, 1791, Captain Etienne Marchand, in the French ship A[ 

 Solids, which had visited Sitka Sound, made the entrance of Cloak" 



* It has been stated that Gray first identified North Island, and traversed Parry Passage. 

 North Island is, however, shown with some accuracy on Dixon's map, published in 1TSS. and it 

 is further improbable that Gray reached this place, as Douslas, coming a tow weeks after the 

 time of his supposed visit, found the natives with plenty of furs to trade, 

 t Greenhow. North West Coast of America, 1840, p. 120. 



t Perhaps, however, named after the Hancock, Captain Crowell, of Boston, in the fur trade 

 in 1791. 



