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Log of the "Chatham" 239

October 21st— Anchorage bearings. Extremes of land from N. 15* W* to S. 55* £.,• Mt OIyn^)us & a low point^ N. 7* W.. Cape Disappointment^ N. 5* E., Eastern extreme* of ditto N. 80* E. Latitude observed 46* 17'*« N. ^ past 12 (p. m.). Answered the signal to lead into Port. J4 past 1, weighed and made sail with the first of the flood to the Eastward. Sent the launch ahead to sound. J4 past 4 made the signal for 9 fathoms with a gun. At 5 brought up the stream anchored" in 5 fathoms, the ebb tide having made. Our soundings from last anchorage were generally 5 to 7 fathoms with a hard sandy bottom. Observed a well sheltered cove^ to the back of Cape Disappointment in which the schooner lay. Larboard outer point of entrance N. 7V W.,^ Starboard ditto S. 59* E.,^* Larboard inner point N. 81* E.,^ Starboard ditto N. 87* E.," South extreme of the land S. 24* E.,^^ Rock of ditto S. 26* E."

5 Pt GrenTille (?)

6 Tillamook Head.

7 Pt. Lcadbetter at mouth of Willapa Harbor.

8 North Head.

9 Caoby Light.

10 One mintite too far north.

11 This anchorage was near to the center of Sand Island, as now located, and a little N. W. of the wreck of the Great Republic as shown on government cnarti. That steamer was wrecked in 1879 on the southwest end of Sand Island, as then located.

13 Baker's Bay.

13 Cape Disappointment.

14 Point Adams.

15 Point Ellice.

16 Tongue Point

17 Tillamook Head and Rock, but an evident error in copying or text here, as Tillainook Head is further east than Tillamook Rock.

t8 Vancouver's "Voyag$** vol. i,pp. 4^0-31, recites:

Saturday, 30. The morning was calm and fair, yet the heavy cross swell continued, and within the Chatham the breakers seemed to extend without the least interruption from shore to shore. Anxious however to ascertain this fact, I sent Lieut. Swaine, in the cutter, to sound between us and the Chatham, and to acquire such information from Mr. Broughton as he might be able to communicate: but a fresh eastwardly breeze prevented his reaching our consort, and obliged him to return; in consequence a signal was made for the lieutenant of the Chatham, and was answered by Mr. Johnstone, who sounded as he came out, but found no bar, as we had been given to understand. The bottom was a dead flat within a quarter of a mite of our anchorage From Mr. Johnstone I received the unpleasant intelligence, that by the violence of the surf, which, during the proceeding night had broken over the decks of the Chatham, her small boat had beien dashed to pieces. Mr. Tohnstone was clearly of opinion, that had the Discovery anchored where the Chatham did. she must have struck with great violence. Under this circumstance we undoubteahr experienced a most providential escape in hauling from the breakers. My former opinion of the port bang inaccessible to vessels of our burthen was now fully confirmed, with this exoepnon, that in very fine weather, with moderate winds, and a smooth sea, vessels not exceeding four hundred tons, might, so far as