and water, was a great deal o f drift-wood thrown afhore j
a part o f w hich w e h ad to remove, to come at the water. It
often happened, that la rge pieces or trees, which w e had removed
in the day, out o f the reach o f the then high-wate r,
were found, the next morning, floated again in our w a y ;
and a ll our fpouts, fo r conveying down the water, thrown
out o f their places, w h ich were immoveable during the
day tides. We a lfo found, that wood, w h ich w e had fplit
u p fo r fu e l, and had depofited beyond the reach o f the day
tide, floated away during the n igh t.- Some o p th e fe circum-
ftances happened every night or morning, fo r three or four
days in the he igh t o f the fpring-tides ; during w hich time
w e were obliged to attend every morning tide, to remove
the la rg e logs out o f the w a y o f watering.
I cannot fay, whether the flood-tide falls into the Sound
from the North Weft, South Weft, or South Eaft. I think it
does not come from the laft quarter ; but this is only conje
t u r e , founded upon the fo llow in g obfervations: T he South
Eaft gales, w hich we had in the Sound, were fo fa r from in-
ereafing the rife o f the tide, that they rather diminiihed it
w h ich would hardly have happened, i f the flood and w ind
had been in the fame direction,
C H A P . IV.
A Storm, after failing from Nootla Sound.— Refolution
fprings a L e a h— Pretended Strait o f Admiral de Fonte
paffed unexamined.— Progrefs along the Co aft o f America.—
Behrings Bay.— Kaye's IJland.— Account o f it,
— The Ships come to an Anchor.— Vifited by the N atives.—
'Their Behaviour.— Fondnefs fo r Beads and Iron.
— Attempt to plunder the Difcovery.— Refolution s Leak
flopped.— Progrefs up the Sound.-— Mejfrs. Gore and
Roberts fen t to examine its Extent.— Reafons againft a
Pajfage to the North through it.— The Ships proceed down
it, to the open Sea.
HA V IN G put to fea, on the evening o f the 26th, as
before related, with ftrong figns o f an approaching
ftorm ; thefe figns did not deceive us. We were hardly out
o f the Sound, before the wind, in an inftant, ihifted frcrm
North Eaft to South Eaft by Eaft, and increafed to a ftrong
gale, with fqualls and rain, and fo dark a Iky, that we could
not fee the len gth o f the ihip. Being apprehenfive, from
the experience I had fince our arrival on this coaft, o f the
wind veering more to the South, w hich would put us in
danger o f a lee-ihore, we got the tacks on board, and
ftretched o ff to the South Weft] under all the fail the ihips
could bear. Fortunately, the wind veered no farther Southe
rly , than South E a ft; fo that at day-light the next morning, Monday i?.
w e were quite clear o f the coaft.