QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS. 39 B 



The Kung Indian village stands on the margin of a cresoentic sandy Indian villages, 

 beach on the west side of Virago Sound, facing southward. It is now 

 being abandoned for the new Ya-tza village to the north-west. Opposite 

 the Kung village is a good anchorage. 



From Naden Point, on the west side of the bay of Virago Sound, the 

 general trend of the shore-line is west-north-westward for about seven- 

 teen miles to Knox Cape, forming the north-western extreme of 

 Graham Island. The shore and country behind it are generally low, 

 though with some rocky cliffs of no great height. The points are 

 rocky, but wide gravelly or sandy bays intervene. Some rocks occur 

 at a little distance off shore, but there is no appearance of a wide 

 shoal belt like that found east of Masset. Klas-kwun Point is a remark- Kias-kwun 

 able promontory, rising in the centre to a hill about 200 feet in height, 

 which, owing to the flat character of other parts of the shore, is visible 

 for a long distance. In a rocky bay to the east of the point, and quite 

 open to the north-eastward, is the new Ya-tza Indian village. Half- 

 way from Klas-kwun Point to the east entrance to Parry Passage is 

 the Jal-un River. This stream is of no great size, but its mouth, in Jai-un River, 

 the bottom of a little bay, forms an excellent canoe or boat harbour at 

 high water, and appears to be a favourite camping place of travelling 

 Indians. Three miles further westward is a small promontory, on the 

 east side of which is another excellent boat harbour. To the west is a 

 wide bay, which may be called Pillar Bay, from a very remarkable Pillar Bay. 

 rock which stands in it. This is a columnar mass of sandstone and 

 conglomerate, about twenty-five feet in diameter and ninety-five feet 

 high. The summit is sloping and covered with some small bushes. 

 It is separated by water from the main shore at high tide, but rises 

 from a sandy and stony flat at low water. The Haida name of this 

 remarkable object is Hla-tad-zo-wdh. 



Parry Passage, so named after the late Sir E. Parry, separates North Parry Passage. 

 Island from Graham Island. The passage proper is about two miles in 

 length, with an average width of three-quarters of a mile, and opens 

 westward into Cloak Bay of Dixon. Off the point on the south of the 

 eastern entrance is a low rock, with a second reef covered at high 

 water a little further out, rendering it necessary to enter with a south- 

 westerly course. Lucy Island, on the north shore of the passage, is 

 separated from the south shore of North Island by a narrow channel, 

 on the north shore of which is a small Indian village, which was in 

 former years a place of importance, and is evidently that called Tar- 

 tanne by. Douglas. A reef runs off the east end of Lucy Island, and a 

 wide shoal with kelp stretches eastward from the shore of the southern 

 extremity of North Island. Between these the channel extends with 

 8 to 11 fathoms of water. Abreast the Indian village the depth in the 



