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rior to that of any other chief whom they had seen on the coast of 

 America. 



" In the afteimoon Captain Douglas took the long-boat and ran across 

 the channel, to an island* which lay between the ship and the village 

 of Tartanee, and invited the chief to be of the party ; who, having seen 

 him pull up the wild parsley and eat it, he was so attentive as to order 

 a large quantity of it, with some salmon, to be sent on board eveiy 

 morning. 



"At six o'clock in the morning of the 23rd, finding the ground to Anchor in 

 be bad, they ran across the channel to a small harbour,f which is 

 named Deale's Harbour, on the Tartanee side ; and at ten dropped 

 anchor in nineteen fathoms water, about half a cable's length from the 

 shore; the land locked all round, and the great wooden images of 

 Tartanee, bore east,, one quarter north; the village on the opposite 

 shore bearing south half west. This harbour is in the latitude of 54° 

 18' North, and longitude 22*7° 6' East. It was high-water there at the 

 change, twenty minutes past midnight; and the tide flows from the 

 westward, sixteen feet perpendicular. The night tides were higher 

 by two feet than those of the day. 



"The two following days were employed in purchasing skins, and 

 preparing to depart ; but as all the stock of iron was expended, they 

 were under the necessity of cutting up the hatch-bars and chain plates. 



" On the morning of the 27th, as soon as the chief returned, who had 

 gone on shore the preceding evening, to get afresh supply of provisions, 

 Captain Douglas gave orders to unmoor, and a breeze springing up, at 

 half-past nine they got under way, and steered through Cox's Channel, 

 with several canoes in tow. At eleyen, having got out of the strength Brisk trade, 

 of the tide, which runs very rapid, they hove to, and a brisk trade 

 commenced with the natives, who bartered their skins for coats, 

 jackets, trousers, jjots, kettles, frying-pans, wash-hand basons, and 

 whatever articles of similar nature could be procured, either from the 

 officers or from the men ; but they refused to take any more of the 

 chain plates, as the iron of which they were made proved so brittle that 

 it broke in their manufacturing of it. The loss of the iron and other 

 articles of trade, which had been taken out of the ship by the Spaniards, 

 was now severely felt, as the natives carried back no small quantity of 

 furs, which Captain Douglas had not the means of purchasing. 



" This tribe is very numerous ; and the village of Tartanee stands on Gardens. 

 a very fine spot of ground, round which was some appearance of culti- 

 vation ; and in one place in particular jt was evident that seed had 

 been lately sown. In all probability Captain Gray, in the sloop 



* Lucy Island of the chart. t Henslung, or the cove to the east of it. 



