A VOYAGE TO 
1778, weighed, and fteered to the North-weftward, with a light 
freeze at Eaft North Eaft; thinking, if there fhould be any 
paflage to the North through this inlet, that it muft be in 
that direction. Soon after we were under fail, the natives, 
in both great and fmall canoes, paid us another viht, which 
gave us an additional opportunity of forming a more per¬ 
fect idea of their perfons, drefs, and other particulars, which 
lhall be afterward defcribed. Our vifiters feemed to have no 
other bufinefs, but to gratify their curiolity ; for they en¬ 
tered into no fort of traffic with us. After we had got over 
to the North Weft point of the arm in which we had an¬ 
chored, we found that the flood-tide came into the inlet, 
through the fame channel by which we had entered. Al¬ 
though this circumftance did not make wholly againft a 
paflage, it was, however, nothing in its favour. After pair¬ 
ing the point above mentioned, we met with a good deal of 
foul ground, and many funken rocks, even out in the 
middle of the channel, which is here five or fix leagues 
wide. At this time the wind failed us, and was fucceeded 
by calms and light airs from every diredtion • fo that we 
had fome trouble to extricate ourfelves from the threaten¬ 
ing danger. At length, about one o’clock, with the affift- 
anee of our boats, we got to an anchor, under the Eaftern 
fhore, in thirteen fathoms water, and about four leagues 
to the North of our laft ftation. In the morning, the wea¬ 
ther had been very hazy; but it afterward cleared up, fo 
as to give us a diftindt view of all the land round us, parti¬ 
cularly to the Northward, where it feemed to clofe. This 
left us but little hopes of finding a paflage that way ; or, 
indeed, in any other diredtion, without putting out again 
to fea. 
To enable me to form a better judgment, I difpatched Mr. 
1 Gore, 
