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erected huts with fires in them, and utensils which must have isos. 
belonged to some of the people before seen, since there was boiled Saturday i 
rice in one of the baskets. We took up our quarters here for the 
night, keeping a good watch ; but nothing was seen of the Indians 
till we pushed off from the shore in the morning, when seven Sunday 2. 
showed themselves upon a hill behind the huts. They ran down to 
examine their habitations, and finding every thing as they had left 
it, a little water excepted of which we were in want, they seemed 
satisfied ; and for a short time three of them followed the boat. 
Along the north-east and east sides of Indented Head, I found 
the water to be shoal for nearly a mile off; but on approaching the 
entrance of what Mr. Murray called Swan Harbour, but which I 
have taken the liberty of converting into Swan Pond, it became 
somewhat deeper. Seeing swans there, I rowed into it after them, 
but found the place full of mud banks, and seldom more than three or 
four feet in depth. Three of the birds were caught; and at the south 
side of the entrance, upon the sandy peninsula, or island as it is 
when the tide is in, I shot some delicate teal, and found fresh water 
in small ponds. 
The ship was lying about three miles within the mouth of the 
port, near to the south shore ; and after I had taken bearings at two 
stations on the sandy peninsula, we steered a straight course for her, 
sounding all the way. It appeared that there was a passage up the 
port of a mile wide, between the middle banks and the western 
shore, with a depth in it from 3 to 4^ fathoms. On the western ex- 
tremity of the banks I had 2^ fathoms, and afterwards 5, 7, 4, 7, 8, 
9, 9 to the ship. 
Lieutenant Fowler had had a good deal of difficulty in getting 
back to the entrance of the port ; owing in part to the western 
winds, and partly from the shoals, which do not seem to lie in any 
regular order. He had touched upon one of these, where there 
was ten feet on one side of the ship, and on the other, 5 fathoms. 
This seems to have been a more eastern part of the same shoal upon 
