1787- try again for the harbour in the morning. At eight o’clock the
points of the bay we had lately left, bore from North 19 deg. Eaft
to Eaft, about three leagues diftant. During the night we ftretch-
ed to the Southward and Weft ward, plying as occafion required.
In the morning of the 3d, we had a frefli Eafterly breeze, and
fqually weather, with rain ; but as we approached the land, it
grew calm ; and at ten o’clock, being not morethan a mile diftant
from fliore, the tide fet us ftrongly on a rocky point to the Northward
of the bay, on which the whale-boat and yawl were hoifted
out and lent a-head, to tow the veffel clear of the rocks.
Several canoes came along-fide, but we knew them to be our
friends whom we had traded with the day before, and found that
they were ftripped of every thing'worth purchafmg, which made
us lefs anxious of getting into our propofed harbour, as there was
a greater probability of our meeting with frefli fupplies of furs to
the Eaft ward. At three o’clock a frefli breeze fpringing up, wc
hoifted in the boats, and the weather turning hazy, we ftretched to
the South Weft, tacking occafionally during the night.
In the morning of the 4th the land in fight bore from North 74
deg. Eaft to South 48 deg. Eaft, about four leagues diftant. A t
noon the head of the bay we firft made, and which I fliall diftin-
guifti by the name of Cloak Bay, bore nearly Eaft, about four leagues
diftant. Our meridian alitude gave 54 deg. 14 min. North latitude;
and the longitude was 133 deg. 23 min. Weft. We found
the variation of the compafs to be 24 deg, 28 min. Eafterly.
During the afternoon we had a frelh Northerly breeze, and
cloudy weather. A t three o’clock we fay a bay to the Eaftward,
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•on which we hauled on a wind, and flood towards i t ; but finding
no appearance of a harbour, nor any fign of inhabitants, when at
two miles diftance from the land, we bore away to the Southward.
A t eight o’clock we tacked and. flood to the Weftward | the extremes
of the land at that time bore from North to South 48 deg.
Eaft, about four miles diftant from fliore.
D u r in g the night we had light baffling winds, w ith intervening
■ calms; but in the morning o f the 5th, a breeze fp ru iig up from
the N o r th W e ft . D u r in g the forenoon we flood in fo r the fliore,
making occafional boards, in order that we might lofe as. little
■ ground as poffible.' A t noon the land in fight bore from South
,8 deg. E a ft to N o r th 11 deg. W e ft , diftance from fliore about
three miles. Our meridian altitude gave 53 deg. 48 min. N o r th
latitude. In the afternoon feveral canoes came along-fide, brings
in g a number o f good cloaks, which they difpofed o f very eagerly ;
b u t trade feemed now to have taken a different tu r n ; brafs pans,
p ewter bafons, and tin kettles, being the articles moftefteemed by
thefe people.
T h e wind continuing fteady at N o r th Weft, Captain Dixon
iudged it more advantageous fo r us to p ly along fliore, a s ciicum
ftances required, than come to anchor, efpecially as we had every
reafon to conclude, th a t the natives did not live together 111 one
■ fo d a l community, b u t w ere flattered about in different tribes, an
probably at en mity with each o ther. A t e ight o’clock the extremes
1ft the land in fight bore from No r th 20 deg, W e ft to South 60
-deg. Eaft, and a kind o f inlet or bay N o r th 70 deg, Ea ft-j foui
miles diftant from fliore.
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