C H A P. VIII.
Progrefs Northward, after leaving Oonalajhla. — The
Ifands Oonella and Acootan.— Ooneemak.— Shallownefs
o f the Water along the Coaft.— Brifiol Bay.— Round
I f and.— Calm Point.— Cape Newenham.— Lieutenant
Williamfon lands, and his Report.— B r ifo l Bap, and its
Extent.— The Ships obliged to return, on account o f
Shoals.— Natives come off to the Ships.— Death o f M r.
Anderfon ; his CharaEler; and I f and named after
Dm.— Point Rodney.— Sledge I f and, and Remarks on
landing there— Kings I f and — Cape Prince o f Wales,
the Wefern Extreme o f America.— Courfe Weftward.
— Anchor in a Bay on the Coafl o f A fa .
July T T A V IN G put to fea with a ligh t breeze, at South South
— ---- ' F I Eaft, we fleered to the North, meeting with nothing
jirfdayz. ^ obflruft us in this courfe. For, as I obferved before, the
Iiland o f Oonalaihka, on the one fide, trended South Weft;
and, on the other, no land was to be feen in a direction more
Northerly than North Eaft; the whole o f which land was a
continuation o f the fame group o f iflands Which we had
fallen in with on the 25th o f June. That which lies- before
Samganoodha, and forms the North Eaft fide o f the pafiage
through which we came, is called Oonella, and is about
feven leagues in circumference. .Another ifland, to the
North Eaft o f it, is called Acootan, which is confiderably
la rg tr than Oonella, and hath in it fome very high- mo'un-
1 - tains,
tams, which were covered with fnow. It appeared, that ‘ I77®-
w e might have gone very fafe ly between thefe two iflands ' }-]r'
and the continent, the South Weft point o f which opened
o ff the North Eaft point o f Acootan, in the direction
o f North, 60’ E a ft; and which proved to be the fame
point o f land we had feen when we quitted the coaft
o f the continent, on the 25th o f June, to go without the
iflands. It is called by the people o f thefe parts Oonemak,
and lies in the latitude o f 54° 30', and in the longitude o f
.192° 30'- Over the cape, which, o f itfelf, is h igh land, is -
a round elevated mountain, at this time entirely covered
with fnow.
At; fix in the evening, this mountain bore Eaft, 20 North 5
and at e ight we had no land in fight. Concluding, there-
fpre, that the coaft o f the continent had now taken a North
Eafterly direction, I ventured to fteer the fame courfe, till
one o’clock next morning,' w hen the watch on deck thought Friday J
they faw land ahead. Upon this we wore, and flood to the
South Weft for two hours, and then refumed our courfe to
the Eaft North Eaft.
At fix o ’clock, land was feen ahead, bearing South Eaft,
about five leagues diftant. As we advanced, we raifed more
and more land, a ll connected, and feemingly in the direction
o f our courfe. At noon, it extended from South South Weft
to Ea ft; the neareft part five or fix leagues diftant. Our latitude,
at this time, was 55° 21', and our.longitude 195° 18'..
T h is coaft is on the North Weft fide o f the rublcarfo mountain;,
fo that w e muft have feen it, i f the weather had been tolerably
clear.
At fix in the evening, after having run e ight leagues
upon an Eaft by North courfe from noon, we founded, and
3 I 2 found