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^793- and a man and a boy of puny conftitutions had fallen viflims to fcorbut—
,---- > tic diforders; the reft had for fome time paft been perfeftly recovered,
owing principally to the wild vegetables procured from the woods.
In the confidence that our arrival here muft have been before the end
of april, I had intended to have made the neceflary obfervations for
afcertaining the rate and error o f our chronometers at this place, whilft
the Chatham fhould undergo the repair Ihe fo evidently required. But
in confequence of our long and tedious paflage from the Sandwich
iflands, I was now determined to proceed immediately to the northward*
in order to join the Chatham, and whilft our boats fhould be employed
in examining thofe regions we had left unexplored the former year, to
make the neceflary obfervations for afcertaining the rate o f the chronometers,
and for carrying into execution our future inveftigations.
On our arrival here we had been vifited by Maquinna, Clewpenaloo,
Annapce, and other chiefs. I When we were laft here I had'underftood,
that Maquinna’s eldeft child, being a daughter named Ahpienis, had in
the courfe of the laft fummer been proclaimed as the fucceffor to the
dominions and authority o f Maquinna after his death; and had about
that time been betrothed to the eldeft fon of Wicananifh, the chief o f a
very confiderable diftrift in the neighbourhood o f Clayoquot and Nit-
tinat.
This chief with his fon, attended by a confiderable retinue, came in
form to Maquinna’s refidence, now fituated without the found on the
fea fhore, about a league to the weftward of this cove; where, after pre-
fenting an aflortment o f certain valuable articles, he had demanded
Maquinna’s daughter; the confiderations on this dower caufed great con-
fultation and many debates. A t fome of thefe a few o f the officers of
the Difcovery were prefent, who underftood, that the compliment was
Thurfdaysg. deemed inadequate to the occafion; but on the forenoon of the 23d, I
was informed, that matters between the two fathers were finally adjufted
to the fatisfafftion of both parties, and that Wicananifh, with his fuite, had
returned to Clayoquot; but that Ahpienis was ftill to refide fome time
longer at Nootka, Her youth, moft likely, as fhe did not then exceed
ten or twelve years of age, was the reafon for poftponing the nuptials.
Wicananifh
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R O U N D T H E W O R L D .
Wicananifh did not favor us with his company, but fent his brother
Tahtoochfecaiticus, to congratulate us on our arrival. This chief came
with fome little apprehenfion about the manner in which he would be
received, in confequence o f the difpute with Mr. Brown of the Butter-
worth ; his fears were however foon difpelled, on receiving fome copper
and blue cloth, which were efteemed prefents fuitable to his rank and
condition. By him I alfo fent fimilar prefents to Wicananifh; which
he promifed faithfully to deliver, and added, that his brother would no
longer entertain any doubts of our fincerity, and would be made extremely
happy by the proofs I had tranfmitted of my friendlhip and
good willies.
Having a light breeze at s. S-. w. though it was ftill attended with hazy,
rainy, unpleafant weather, we weighed, worked out of the found, and
faluted the fort as on our arrival.
During; our fhort flay in Friendly cove, we were not fo fortunate as
to procure any obfervations for afcertaining the rate of our chronometers;
we had however taken four fets of the fun’s altitude, on the
20th, as we failed intd the port. | Thefe fhewed the longitude o f Nootka,
agreeably to their rates o f gaining as afcertafned at Karakakooa bay,
to be, by Kendall’s chronometer, 23l°42''; by Arnold’s No. 14, 2310
52' 22"; and by his No. 176, 234010' 45"; hence Kendall’s erred, according
to our fettlement of this place the preceding year, i° 49' 30" to
the weftward; Arnold’s No. 14, 1“ 36'8" to the weftward alfo; and
Arnold’s No.. 176, 39' 14",. eaftwardly. Confidering this error in Kendall’s
chronometer to have taken place fince our departure from Why-
mea bay, in Attowai, where it had agreed within two miles o f all our
former calculations, it will be found to have been gaining fince that
time, inftead of 8" 52"', as eftablilhed at Karakakooa bay, 16" 55"' per day,
and to be faft of mean time at Greenwich on the 20th of may, at noon,
2k 1'2". The other two inftruments erred very materially between
Karakakooa and Whymea, the fame way that their errors were now found
to b e; therefore I have fuppofed thofe errors to have commenced on our
departure from Karakakooa bay, and by fo doing, Arnold’s No. 14 will
be found to be gaining at the rate of 2o";32"' per day, and faft of mean
time at Greenwich on the 20th of may, at noon, i h 56' 26" ; and No.
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