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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 looking 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 

 chief's house, who was absent, but soon returned. Lieutenant Case 

 asked him for the missing article ; the possession of which being 

 denied, he took the chief's 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 Lieutenant 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 chief's 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 being 

 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-messen- 

 ger, 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 

 rocky, with a deeper and richer soil, formed by the alluvial deposits 

 from the Mount Olympus Range. 



On entering the canal, thoy encamped near some Suquamish Indians, 



