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 and accordingly earched the coat from 36° to 60° North; the inland part of which was before little known to European navigators. I alo urveyed everal bays, harbours and creeks, and dicovered many coniderable inlets, particularly between 50° and 53° North, which were uppoed to communicate with Hudon's Bay. I likewie made two voyages to China, but, on my return from the firt of them, was unfortunately captured by the Spaniards at Nootka-Sound, and ent a prioner to the port of St. Blas in the Gulph of California. From thence I was permitted to go to Mexico, to make my appeal to the Viceroy; a journey, including my return to St. Blas, of eighteen hundred miles. But after being detained as a prioner thirteen months, and having lot four of my five veels, with mot of my Officers and half the crew, who had become the victims of dieae, I was at length