'Caarnano. 



12B GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OP CANADA. 



Bay, between North and Graham Islands. While the vessel stood off 

 and on, a boat party entered and cxjdorcd the bay and adjacent Parry 

 Passage (or Cox's Channel). The first chart in detail published of any 

 of the Queen Charlotte Islands harbors, was that prepared by Mar- 

 chand's party. It is said, however, that Ingram inserted plans of 

 several harbours in a manuscript journal of his voyage. The Solide 

 subsequently visited the west coast of Graham Island for some distance 

 to the southward, and then departed for Barclay Sound. 



In 1792, the Spanish corvette Aransasu, Lieutenant Jacinto 

 Caarnano, in company with the sloops Sutil and Mexicana, sailed 

 from San Bias to Nootka. Thence the two last-named vessels departed 

 for the Strait of Juan de Fuca, while Caarnano, sailing northward, 

 explored various parts of the coast to the 56th parallel of latitude, 

 including the north shore of the Queen Chaidotte Islands, where he 

 applied the name Isle de Langara to North Island, and those of 

 Estrada and Mazaredo to Masset and Virago Sounds. 



Gray's mate, Haswell, in the Adventure, and afterwards Gray 

 himself, in the Coulmbia, also returned to the Queen Charlotte 

 Islands to trade in this year. 

 Vancouver. I 11 1*792, Captain George Vancouver, in His Majesty's sloop 



Discovery and armed tender Chatham, arrived on the west coast, 

 and began the series of explorations and surveys which occupied 

 parts of three years, and resulted in the correct delineation of the 

 main features of the coast from the 30th parallel northward, and west- 

 ward to Cook's Inlet and Kadiak. In July, 1793, he sailed northward 

 between the Queen Charlotte Islands and the mainland, sighting them 

 several times from a distance. In September, 3 793, he was again in the 

 vicinity of the Queen Charlotte Islands, and in coasting down the west 

 shore, correctly outlined it. He gives some observations on its 

 character and bearings from point to point, which have already been 

 quoted. He named at this time Point North, Point Frederick (Frederic 

 Island), Englefielcl Bay, Cape Heniy, Point Buck, Cartwright's Sound 

 and Point Hunter. 



In August, 1794, Vancouver again passed southward along the west 

 coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands, but, owing to thick weather, 

 scarcely saw them, and was not able to add to his notes of a former 

 year. 

 Nanfber of ves- It would be uninteresting, even were it possible, to follow the various 

 trade. 11 tlie fur traders who must have visited the Queen Charlotte Islands after this 

 time. It is more than probable, indeed, that many vessels resorted to th e 

 islands during the later years included in the above record, for Van- 

 couver gives a list of no less than twenty-one which were engaged in 

 the fur trade between the north-west coast of America and China in 



