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harbour, and as it's in vain to beat to Nootka with a strong breeze a head, we bore up, and towards evening, in company with the Margaret, anchor'd in Clioquot harbor. 156 The Natives were at first shy, but we prevail'd on some of them to come on board.

12. Capt. Gray, having met with Wickananish on board the Margaret, prevail'd on him to visit the Columbia, but he did not appear happy. However 't was the means of getting more Skins, than we otherwise would have done. Employ'd wood- ing and watering (abreast the Ship) and under cover of her Guns.

15. This day arriv'd in the Harbour the English Brig Venus Henry Sheppard Master, 6 months from Bengali in India. I went off to him in the offing, and piloted his Brig to the harbour. He inform'd us that at a small harbour in De Fuca straits, where he was at anchor a few days since, there was a Spanish settlement, where lay a Spanish 64, the master of which while amusing himself in shooting back in the woods, was kill'd by the Indians, in consequence of which the Spaniards seized a Canoe full of Natives and massacred them all (in cold blood) not even sparing Children. Shocking to relate ! 158

17. Weigh'd with a fair wind, and left Clioquot bound to Nootka sound, to repair the Ship, under the protection of the Spaniards. Left the Ship and Brig behind. The wind soon came a head, and we began turning to windward, without mak- ing much progress. However we shall reach it by persever- ance.

19. N. Latt. 49 0' ; W. Long. 125 0' Bad weather and the wind direct ahead. This day stood in and anchor'd in Clioquot harbour. Found the Ship made a poor hand beat-

156 The Port Cox already frequently mentioned in these notes. From this anchorage Gray could see all that remained of the destroyed village of Opitsitah, which was onlv four miles distant.

157 A brig of one hundred and ten tons commanded by a Captain Shepherd. Finding the price of furs too high on the sea coast, she sailed from Nootka to try the trade in Queen Charlotte Sound, and, much to Vancouver's surprise, was met by him near Calvert Island on i7th August, 1792. Vancouver's Voyage, vol. 2, pp. 319-320, 8vo. ed. 1801.

158 The atrocities were not always on the Indians' side. In grab am gives much the same account; he says the Spaniards killed eight of the natives on this occasion. See New Vancouver Journal in Washington Historical Quarterly, vol. VI, p. 57-