Soon after- eight in the morning, I took-five*altitiides ‘for time, and the
mean • of them 36° 48' at fix 'fe the -äfte'rnöon, time,' by the
watch^whidh makes the»adhromttei' flow apparent **S#- "
Two eanoes now arrived Trom the fame quarter as; the reft, with leve-
ral men, and out young Indian-aiong ’with them. > They brought a .very
few fmail fea-otter fkins, out o f feafon/with feme pieces*of- raw feal’s
flelh. The former were o f no valuej butr'hungerfedmpdlM(fe®Äe' of< my
people to take the latter, at an extravagant price» *Mr< Maekay/Mghted a
bit o f touch wood with a burning-glafs, in the cover ofihis.>föbaeeo-b'oki
which lb furprifed the natives, that they exchanged, the befl’of their otter
fkins for it. The young man was now Very, anxious to perfuade our people
to depart, as the natives, he faid, were-as numerous as mulquitöes,'änd> o f
very malignant charafter. This information produced fome very ear-
neft retnonßrances to me to haßen our departurdihut as I\«s^fefmMed
not to leave this place, except I was abfolutelyi.compelled to itfMII I had
afcertained its fituation, thefe folicitations were not repeated.
While I was taking a meridian, , two canoes, of a larger fize, and well
manned, appeared from«, the main South-Weß channel. They feemed
tobe the fore-runners of others, who were coming to eo*operate^ with iMl
people of the village, in confequence of the melfage lent by the two-boys,
which has been already -mentioned; and our young Indian, who underflood
them, renewed his entreaties for our departure, as they would foon
come to (hoot their arrows, and hurl: their fpears at us. In relating öur
danger, his agitation was fo violent that he foamed at the mouth.
Though I was not altogether free from apprehenfions on the occafion, it
was nëêeflàry far me-%fldifguife *them,‘ as my people were panic ftruck,
and; fifeiéof them àfked if it'was my dteferminatiorr io rémairitfiére' to be
fScrifieedp'; 'My re-^îly^às^‘''thei;fàmëi a^ibeir farm'éf importunities had
•received, that FiWoüîd< not iftir till I had accomplithed' tny objddt; at the
fame time,- to -humoHr their feafcs,JFdohfented that 'they fflould put every
thing into the canoe,'that we rtiight bë^iti-a ‘ftàte of preparation to depart.
The two canoes »eAv approached the fliorë; ahd ifr a fhort tihie fi rè
men, with their families^ landed veryquietlyTfôriïthèm. - Mÿdnftrumexîfes
feeing expofed,-they examined them with much-apparent admiration and
aftdnilhmëht. My altitudej by an artificial .' horizon1,, "gave 52s9 21* 33-^4
that by the natural horizon was 520 201 48" North latitude.*
Thélè Indians were of a different tribe/from thofe which' I had already
feen, as our guide did not underftand their language. I now mixed up
fome vermilion' in melted greafe, and infcribeH, :in large characters, on
th e Soüth-Eaft face of the rock on which weKadfleptlaftnight, this
brief-memorial-^“ Alexander Mackenzie, Trom Canada, 0 y land, the
twenty-lecond of July, one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-three.”
As I thought that ;we were' too-near the village, I confented to lebve
this place, ;and accordingly proceeded North-Eaft three miles, when we
landed on a point, in a:fmal! cove, where we Ihould not be readily feen,
and could not be attacked except in our front.
Among other articles that had been ftolen from us, at our laft ftation,
* This I found to,be the cheek of Vancouver’s- Cafcade Canât*