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and visited all the stations he had before occupied, and became well 

 satisfied that it had been stolen. While looking for it, a canoe with 

 three Toandos joined him, and on learning what he was lookiiig 

 for, they said it was among the Scocomish tribe, and gave a full 

 account of its having been picked up by a woman who was sitting 

 near when the box was opened. Lieutenant Case took one of the 

 men with him up the canal, to point out the place; on reaching 

 which, they proceeded to the chiefs house, who was absent, but soon 

 returned. Lieutenant Case asked him for the missing article; the 

 possession of which being denied, he took the chiefs gun, telling him 

 it would be kept until the eye-piece was restored. After several 

 fruitless attempts, it could not be obtained ; for the woman, it was 

 said, had taken it down the canal. The chief, however, promised 

 to follow her, which he did the next day. The next morning Lieu- 

 tenant Case was threatened with an attack by eight canoes, which 

 he avoided by making sail down the canal, when they desisted from 

 following him. During the day he met the chief returning. He 

 had been to the Scocomish village, having heard that a girl there 

 had something resembling it, as he said, but it proved to be a cologne- 

 bottle. 



Lieutenant Case, finding that his party was too small to attempt 

 force, restored the chief his gun. He was afterwards informed that 

 the chiefs object in visiting the villages on the canal, had been to 

 collect his warriors. After leaving the chief, they were followed by a 

 canoe containing five of the largest and most muscular men he had 

 seen ; all of whom were armed, and apparently disposed for some 

 mischief Although satisfied that the eye-piece was among them. 

 Lieutenant Case deemed it prudent not to risk an encounter with 

 such unequal odds, and returned to the ship. He was desirous of 

 beino- furnished with a larger force, in order to return and obtain the 

 eye-piece ; but believing that a message would be equally effective, 

 Mr. Anderson, at the fort, was obliging enough to despatch a war- 

 messenger, to inform the tribe, that if it were not brought back, I 

 would punish them. 



Lieutenant Case's survey of Hood's Canal was very satisfactory. 

 Its banks, as far as Tskutska Point, do not exceed one hundred feet 

 in height, and are formed of stratified clay, with a light gravelly soil 

 above it, thickly covered with different species of pines. This is also 

 the character of the eastern shore, for the whole extent of the canal ; 

 but the west and north shores above this point become more bold and 



