On the 4th, fine pleafant weather. Moft of the natives now
retired up the Sound. Indeed, I had taken every gentle method
to oblige them to be g o n e fo r fince thefe new-comers had been
with us, our old friends had difappeared, and we had been
without filh. Having gone over to Long Ifland, to look for the
hog which had been feen there, I found it to be one of the
fows left by Captain Furneaux; the fame that was in the pof-
feffion o f the natives when we were laft here. From a fuppo-
fition of its being a boar, I had carried over a fow to leave with
him; but on feeing my miftake, brought her back, as the
leaving her there would anfwer no end.
Early in the morning of the 5th, our old friends made us.
a vifit, and brought a feafonable fupply of filh. At the fame
time I embarked in the pinnace, with Mellis. Forfters and
Sparrman, in order to proceed up the Sound. I was defirous
of finding the termination of i t ; or rather of feeing if I could
find any paflage out to fea by the S. E., as I fufpedted from
fome difcoveries I had made when firft here. In our way up,
we met with fome fifhers, of whom we made the neceflary
inquiry; and they all agreed that there was no paflage to fea
by the head o f the Sound. As we proceeded, we, fome time
after, met a canoe conducted by four men coming down the
Sound. Thefe confirmed what the others had faid, in regard
to there being no paflage to fea the way we were going; but
gave us to underftand that there was one to the Ealt, in the
very place where I expedited to find it. I now laid afide the
fcheme of going to the head of the Sound, and proceeded to
this arm, which is on the S. E. fide, about four or five leagues
above the Ifle of Motuara.
A little within the entrance on the S. E. fide, at a place
called Kotieghenooee, we found a large fettlement o f the na-
. 6 • tives.
t iv e s . The chief, whofe name was Tringo-boohee, and his NT<Jv7e^ cr
people, whom we found to be fome of thofe who had lately 1— ^— -
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been on board the imp, received us with great courteiy*
They feemed to be pretty numerous both here and in the
neighbourhood, Our flay with them was fhort, as the information
they gave us encouraged us to purfue the objedt
we had in view. 'Accordingly we proceeded, down the arm
E. N. E. and E. by N., leaving feveral fine coves on both fides,
and at laft found it to open into the Strait by a channel about
a mile, wide, in which ran out a ftrong tide ; having alfo ob-
ferved one fetting down the arm, all the time we had been
in it. It was now about four o’clock in the afternoon; and
in lefs than an hour after, this tide ceafed, and was fucceed-
ed by the flood, which came in with equal ftrength.
The outlet lies S. E. by E. and N. W. by W .; and nearly
in the diredtion of E. S. E. and W. N. W. from Cape Terra-
whitte. We found thirteen fathoms water a little within the
entrance, clear ground. It feemed to me that a leading
wind was neceflary to go in and out of this paflage, on account
of the rapidity of the tides; I, however, had but
little time to make obfervations of this nature, as night was-
at hand, and I had refolved to return on board. On that
account, I omitted vifiting a large Hippa, or ftrong-hold, built
on an elevation on the north fide, and about a mile or two
within the entrance. The inhabitants of it, by figns, invited
us to go to them; but, without paying any regard to them,
we proceeded diredtly for the fhip, which we reached by ten-
o'clock; bringing with us fome filh we had got from the
natives, and a few birds we had fhot. Amongft the latter
were fome of the fame kind of ducks we found in Dufky Bay;
and we have reafon to believe that they are all to be met with
here.