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ing to windward from this Ration we loft ground until tuefday morning,
when a light breeze, attended by ferene pleafant weather, fprang up from
the weftward, with which our courfe was direCled for the low land to the
eaftward of point Riou. At noon, the öbferved latitude was 59° 39', longitude
219° 15', and the variation of the compafs was in the morning
go° 20' eafterly. The moft weftern land in fight at this time bore by com-
pafs weft; point Riou, N. 54 w . ; the neareft Ihore, N. 21 w., diftant feven
miles. This is a low projecting point of land, fituated according to our
obfervations in latitude 59° 47', and longitude 219° 17'; a point which
I named P o i n t M a n b y , and which I took to be thé weft point of what
in Mr. Dixon’s chart is called Admiralty bay, bore «. 39 e., diftant 7
leagues ; beyond which, high diftant fnowy mountains were feen ftretching
to N. 8q e. A s we advanced aldng the coaft from point Riou the country
became lefs woody, and beyond the low projecting point it feemed
only to produce a brownilh vegetation, which further to the eaftward in-
tirely difappeared, and prefented a naked barren country, compofed
apparently of loofe unconnected ftones of different magnitudes.
The weather was fine, and the wind being favorable we made a plea-
lant progrefs along the coaft, which continued to be a low compact border
of plain land; this, towards point Manby, gradually put On a more
verdant and fertile appearance, and to the eaftward of that point the country
was again well wooded. In the evening we paffed point Manby! and
faw to the e . N. e . the iflands that form port Mulgrave, for which we fleered
in queft of the Chatham, but made little progrefs, as the favorable breeze-
again deferted us, and was fucceeded by a calm. At ten at night we
heard the report of a gun in the direction of port Mulgrave, which was
immediately anfwered, concluding it to be fired from our confort; this
conjeHure proved to be correCt, as by four the next morning we were
vifited by Mr. Manby, the matter of the Chatham, in one of the Kodiak
Indian canoes, attended by two others. The Indians had reported that
a Ihip was near the coaft, and our having'anfwered their gun the preceding.
evening, left little doubt on board the Chatham of our being arrived;
and under a fuppofition that it might be my intention to enter
port Mulgrave, Mr. Manby had come off for the purpofe of conducting
us
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