March. canoe (a.t lea ft a canoe) hauled upon the ffiore near to two
fma11 huts> where were Several fire-places, fome filliing
nets, a few fifh lying on the ffiore, and fome in the canoe.
But we faw no people; they, probably, had retired into the
■ woods. After a Ihort flay, and leaving in the canoe fome
medals, looking-glaffes, beads, &c. we embarked and rowed
to the head of the cove, where we found nothing remarkable.
In returning back we put afhore at the fame place as before;
but ftill faw no people. However, they could not be far off,
as we fmelled the fmoke of fire, though we did not fee it.
But I did not care to fearch farther, or to force an interview
which they feemed to avoid; well knowing that the way to
obtain this, was to leave the time and place to themfelves.
It did not appear that any thing I had left had been touched;
however, I now added a hatchet, and, with the night, returned
©n board.
Monday 29, OBj were fhowers till the afternoon; when a
party of the officers made an excurfion up the bay ; and Mr.
Forfter and his party were out botanizing. Both parties returned
in the evening without meeting with anything worthy
of notice; and the two following days, every one was confined
to the fhip on account of rainy flormy weather.
ThuX.. lD thC afternoon of the ift of April, accompanied by fe-
veral df the gentlemen, I went to fee if any of the articles I
had left for the Indians were taken away. We found every
thing remaining in the canoe; nor did it appear that any
body had been, there fin.ce. After ffiooting fome birds, one
of which was a duck, with a blue-grey plumage and foft bill,
we, in the evening, returned on board.
Fndayz. The 2d, being a pleafant morning, Lieutenants Clerke
and Edgcumbe, and the two Mr. Forfters, went in a boat up
the
the bay to fearch for the productions of nature; and myfelf, ^73-
Lieutenant PiCkerfgill, and Mr. Hodges, went to take a '----.—
view of the N. W. fide. In our way, we touched at the feal
rock, and killed three feals, one of which afforded us much
fport. After palling feveral ifles, we at length came to the
moil northern and weftern arms of the bay; the fame as is
formed by the land of Five Fingers Point. In the bottom of
this arm or cove, we found many ducks, wood hens, and
other wild fowl, fome of which we killed, and returned on
board at ten o’clock in the evening; where the other party
had arrived feveral hours before us, after having had but
indifferent fport. They took with them a black dog we had
got. at the Cape, who,- at the firfl mufquet they fired, ran
into the woods, from whence he would not return. The
three following days were rainy ; fo that no excurfions were
made.
Early in the morning on the 6th, a ffiooting party, made Tutfday 6.
up of the officers, went to Goofe Cove, the place where I
was the 2d; and myfelf, accompanied by the two Mr.
Forfters and Mr. Hodges, fet out to continue the furvey of
the bay. My attention was directed to the North fide, where
I difcovered a fine capacious cove, in the bottom of which
is a freffi water river; on the weft fide feveral beautiful
fmall cafcades ; and the ffiores are fo fteep that a ffiip might
1 ie near enough to convey the wafer into her by a hofe. In
this cove we fhot fourteen ducks, befides. other birds, which
occasioned my calling it Duck Cove.
As we returned in the evening, we had a fliort interview
with three of the natives, one man and two women. They-
were the firft that difcovered themfelves'on the N. E. point
of Indian Ifland, named fo on this occafion. We ffiould
Von, I. . L have