THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
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come up to the furface of the water, where he was taken up, 
with one of his legs fractured in a dangerous manner. 
Early the next morning, we gave the fhip a good heel to 
port, in order to come at, and flop the leak. On ripping 
off the fheathing, it was found to be in the Teams, which 
were very open, both in and under the wale; and, in feve- 
ral places, not a bit of oakum in them. While the carpen¬ 
ters were making good thefe defects, we filled all our empty 
water-calks, at a ftream hard by the fhip. The wind was 
now moderate, but the weather was thick and hazy, with 
rain. 
The natives, who left us the preceding day, when the 
bad weather came on, paid us another vifit this morning. 
Thofe who came firft, were in fmall canoes ; others, after¬ 
ward, arrived in large boats; in one of which were twenty 
women, and one man, befides children. 
In the evening of the 16th, the weather cleared up; and 
we then found ourfelves furrounded on every fide by land. 
Our ftation was on the Eaft fide of the Sound, in a place, 
which in the chart is diftinguiffied by the name of Snug 
Corner Bay. And a very fnug place it is. I went, accompa¬ 
nied by fome of the officers, to view the head of it; and 
we found that it was fheltered from all winds; with a depth 
of water from feven to three fathoms over a muddy bottom. 
The land, near the Ihore, is low; part clear, and part wood¬ 
ed. The clear ground was covered, two or three feet thick, 
with fnow; but very little lay in the woods. The very 
fummits of the neighbouring hills were covered with 
wood ; but thofe farther inland feemed to be naked rocks, 
buried in fnow. 
Friday 15. 
Saturday 16. 
The leak being flopped, and the ffieathing made good 
over it, at four o’clock in the morning of the 17th, we 
Yol. II. 3 A weighed. 
Sunday 17. 
