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next day the axe was restored, and the musket given up. After this, 

 a more friendly disposition was evinced, as Mr. Eld supposes from 

 the fact of their having learnt from Nisqually who they were. 



From the 1st to the 6th of August, the party effected little, and 

 their supply of provisions was becoming very low. On the latter 

 day they shifted their camp, about five miles towards the capes, to 

 a small patch of meadow-land, near one of the small streams which 

 empty into the harbour. 



After remaining here a few days, they selected another spot, at the 

 South Head ; and on the 10th, the Indians failing to perform their 

 engagements, they moved their articles themselves to their new 

 encampment. They had now very nearly exhausted their provisions, 

 and were living on the dead fish they picked up on the beach (a sort 

 of hake) and some berries. From continual exposure to wet, with 

 hard work, as well as scanty and bad food, they all became very feeble 

 and sick, and were able to do but little work. On the 13th, Lieu- 

 tenant De Haven, whom I had sent over, arrived, and relieved them; 

 and on his return to Baker's Bay, twenty days' provisions were sent 

 with a party of Kanakas, under the guidance of Boileau, a Canadian. 



This supply reached them on the 19th August, from which time 

 they proceeded rapidly with the survey, when the weather would 

 permit. Previous to the arrival of Lieutenant De Haven, Mr. Eld 

 and his party had parted with their own clothing and blankets, for 

 the purpose of effecting the purchase of a large canoe to carry on 

 their work. The Indians refused to deliver it, except for actual pay ; 

 for they had not yet learned to value the small pieces of paper, or 

 orders on the Company's store, so much prized in the upper country, 

 and which are there usually preferred to the articles themselves. 

 The threat to stop trading for powder, Mr. Eld found was a strong 

 inducement to accomplish any object with the Indians, for they 

 prize this and tobacco beyond any other articles, always except- 

 ing rum. 



Mr. Eld, in one instance, treated one of the Indians to a pipe 

 and tobacco, which affected him so much that they thought he was 

 going into a fit, and created considerable alarm. This effect arises 

 from their mode of using the pipe, for they invariably swallow 

 the smoke, and retain the greatest part of it in the stomach and 

 lungs. 



On the 24th, the survey was finished, and they prepared for their 

 departure. The tract of land bordering on the Chickeeles, below 



