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best bower-anchor, and veered out on both cables ; sent down the main- 

 top-gallant-yard; filled up all the water-casks in the hold. The latter 

 part, heavy gales, and rainy, dirty weather. 



May 13£/t. — Fresh winds and rainy weather; many natives along- 

 side ; hove up the best bower-anchor ; seamen and tradesmen at their 

 various departments. 



May l&th. — Fresh gales and cloudy; many natives alongside; at 

 noon, weighed and came to sail, standing up the river north-east by east; 

 we found the channel very narrow. At four, P. M., we had sailed up- 

 wards of twelve or fifteen miles, when the channel was so very narrow 

 that it was almost impossible to keep in it, having from three to eighteen 

 fathoms water, sandy bottom. At half past four, the ship took ground, 

 but she did not stay long before she came off, without any assistance. 

 We backed her off, stern foremost, into three fathoms, and let go the 

 small bower, and moored ship with kedge and hawser. The jolly-boat 

 was sent to sound the channel out, but found it not navigable any farther 

 up ; so, of course, we must have taken the wrong channel. So ends, 

 with rainy weather ; many natives alongside. 



May 15th. — Light airs and pleasant weather; many natives from 

 different tribes came alongside. At ten, A. M., unmoored and dropped 

 down with the tide to & better anchoring-place ; smiths and other trades- 

 men constantly employed. In the afternoon, Captain Gray and Mr. Hos- 

 kins, in the jolly-boat, went on shore to take a short view of the country. 



May lQth. — Light airs and cloudy. At four, A. M., hove up the 

 anchor and towed down about three miles, with the last of the ebb-tide; 

 came into six fathoms, sandy bottom, the jolly-boat sounding the channel. 

 At ten, A. M., a fresh breeze came up river. With the first of the ebb- 

 tide we got under way, and beat down river. At one, (from its being 

 very squally,) we came to, about two miles from the village, (Ckinouk,) 

 which bore west-south-west ; many natives alongside ; fresh gales and 

 squally. 



May 17th. — Fresh winds and squally ; many canoes alongside ; calk- 

 ers calking the pinnace ; seamen paying the ship's sides with tar ; painter 

 painting ship ; smiths and carpenters at their departments. 



May 18th. — Pleasant weather. At four in the morning, began to 

 heave ahead; at half past, came to sail, standing down river with the ebb- 

 tide; at seven, (being slack water and the wind fluttering,) we came to in 

 five fathoms, sandy bottom ; the entrance between the bars bore south- 

 west by west, distant three miles. The north point of the harbor bore 

 north-west, distant two miles; the south bore south-east, distant three and 

 a half miles. At nine, a breeze sprung up from the eastward : took up 

 the anchor and came to sail, but the wind soon came fluttering again ; 

 came to with the kedge and hawser ; veered out fifty fathoms. Noon, 

 pleasant. Latitude observed, 46 degrees 17 minutes north. At one, 

 came to sail with the first of the ebb-tide, and drifted down broadside, 

 with light airs and strong tide ; at three quarters past, a fresh wind came 

 from the northward; wore ship, and stood into the river again. At four, 

 came to in six fathoms; good holding-ground about six or seven miles 

 up ; many canoes alongside. 



May 19th. — Fresh wind and clear weather. Early a number of 

 canoes came alongside ; seamen and tradesmen employed in their various 

 departments. Captain Gray gave this river the name of Columbia's 



