THE PACIFIC OCEAN, 
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CHAP. IV. 
A Storm, after failing from Nootka Sound,—Refolution fprings 
a Leak.—Pretended Strait of Admiral de Fonte pajfed 
unexamined.—Progrefs along the Coajl of America. —■ Beer - 
mg's Bay. — Kaye's IJland.—Account of it.—The Ships come 
to an Anchor.—Vifited by the Natives.—Their Behaviour .— 
Fondnefs for Beads and Iron.—Attempt to plunder the Dif- 
covery.'—Refolutioris Leak flopped.—Progrefs up the Sound. 
— Meffrs. Gore and Roberts fent to examine its Extent .— 
Reafons againft a Pajfage to the North through it.—The 
Ships proceed down it, to the open Sea. 
H AVING put to fea, on the evening of the 26th, as i 77 s. 
before related, with ftrong ligns of an approaching , ^ FlL . 
ftorm; thefe ligns did not deceive us. We were hardly out Sunday 26. 
of the Sound, before the wind, in an inftant, fhifted from 
North Eaft to South Eaft by Eaft, and increafed to a ftrong 
gale, with fqualls and rain, and fo dark a fky, that we could 
not fee the length of the fhip. Being apprehenlive, from 
the experience I had fince our arrival on this coaft, of the 
wind veering more to the South, which would put us in 
danger of a lee-fhore, we got the tacks on board, and 
ftretched off to the South Weft, under all the fail the fhips 
could bear. Fortunately, the wind veered no farther South- 
erly, than South Eaft; fo that at day-light the next morn- Monday27. 
ing, we were quite clear of the coaft. 
The 
