The above Ikins were fold at Canton- the 21ft March,
and valued as under, viz.
I786*
140 prime Ikins, Cold at 60 dollars each,,
175 2d ditto, . 45 ditto
80 3d ditto, . . 30- ditto
75 4th ditto, . 15 ditto
- 50 5 th ditto, . . . 1 0 ditto.
500 whole Ikins,
240 flips and pieces,,
eftimated at
60 Ikins, fold for . 600 ditto
560 fea-otter Ikins,
Total'amount 20,600 dollars.
Encouraged by fo fuccefsful a beginning,, the Gentlemen engaged
in this undertaking difpatched Captain Hanna a fecond
time. He failed from Macao in May; 17 86, in the Sea-Otter
fnow, of one hundred and twenty tons and thirty men. Having
before fucceeded £b well in King George’s. Sound, his orders were
to proceed to the fame place, purfuing his former track. He arrived
at the'Sound in Auguft, but the complexion of things, was
now greatly altered: Cumakeela^ an Indian Chief, whom-he became
acquainted with during his former vifit to this, place,, informed
him, that two fhips had lately been there who had bought
all the furs, and John M‘Key, whom he found here as has already
been related, confirmed this circumftance. Wilhing however to
refrelh his people, many of whom were ill of the fcurvy, he lay
in the Sound about a fortnight, during which time he purchafed
a about
about fifty good fea-otter Ikins, which were brought him by the 1788.
natives- from diftant parts. Captain Hanna afterwards traced the f
coaft to near 53 degrees North latitude. He anchored in St-
Patrick's Bqy, in the latitude 50 degrees 42 minutes North, and
met with fome inhabitants there, but got few furs of any con--
fequence. He left the coaft on the 1 ft of Oftober, and arrived;
at Macao the 8th of February, 1787..
The furs Captain Hanna procured this-voyage were fold at:
Canton the 12th of March, 1787, and confifted only of
100 fea-otter Ikins, fold at 50 dollars each, and,
300 different fized flips and
pieces n f fea-otter, fome
of them indifferent, at 10 ditto ditto-
Total amount 8,000 dollars.
The fnow-Captain Cook, Captain Lorie,- of 300 tons, and
the fnow Experiment, Captain Guife, of 100 tons, were fitted-
out at Bombay, and left that place the beginning of 1786. They,
arrived at King George’s Sound in June, at which place they procured
near 600 fea-otter Ikins. On leaving this place they proceeded
along the coaft, and difcovered an extenfive found in about
51 deg. North latitude, which they called Queen Charlotte’s Sound;
from thence they proceeded in a direct courfe.to Prince William’s 1
Sound.
What,