QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS. 157 B 



Four years later, Captain Douglas, the colleague of Meares. visited Douglas 

 this place on his trading voyage. His people were probably the first Masset* 

 whites to land on any part of the Queen Charlotte Islands. In the 

 narrative of his voyage, a few details in regard to the coast and beha- 

 vior of the natives are given. From Meares' volume (p. 364) the 

 following extracts of interest in this connexion are made. The first 

 paragraph refers to June 19. 1789. — 



" The weather was moderate and cloud}*, with the wind from the 

 south-west. At sun-set, there being the appearance of an inlet, which 

 bore south-south-west, they stood across a deep hay, where they had 

 irregular soundings, from twenty-six to eleven fathoms water, at the 

 distance of two leagues from the shore; the wind dying away they 

 dropped the stream anchor, the two points which form the bay, bearing 

 from west, one quarter north, to north-east half east, distant from the 

 shore four miles. It was now named Mdntyre's Bay,* and lies in the 

 latitude of 53° 58' North, and longitude 218° 6' East, 



" In the morning of the 20th, the long-boat was dispatched to the 

 head of the bay, to discover if there was any passage up the inlet; and 

 the account received on her return was, that toward the head of the 

 bay a bar run across, on which the long-boat got aground; but that 

 within it there was the appearance of a large sound. Several canoes 

 now came along-side the ship, and having purchased their stock of furs, 

 Captain Douglas got under way to look into an inlet which he had 

 •observed the preceding year. At noon it was exceedingly hazy, and 

 no observation was made. 



" Early in the afternoon the long-boat was sent, well-manned and Interview with 

 armed, to examine the inlet and soujud for anchorage. At five o'clock 

 they dropped the bower anchor in twent} 7 -five fathoms water, about 

 four miles from the shore, and two from a small barren rocky island, 

 which happened to prove the residence of a chief, named Blakow- 

 Coneehaw, whom Captain Douglas had seen on the coast in his last 

 voyage. He came immediately on board, and welcomed the arrival of 

 the ship with a song, to which two hundred of his people formed a 

 chorus of the most pleasing melody. When the voices ceased, he paid 

 Captain Douglas the compliment of exchanging names with him, after 

 the manner of the chiefs of the Sandwich Islands. 



"At seven in the morning (June 21st) they stood up the inlet, and £°es ^ Parry 

 at nine came to, in eighteen fathoms water, where they moored the 

 ship f with the stream anchor. Through this channel,! which is 

 formed by Charlotte's Islands, and an island that lies off the west end 



* Now called Masset. f In Bruin Bay. 



t Parry Passage. 



