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Aft, so as to keep her steady in her berth, at high water. In three days, by the assistance of the Spanish and English Car- penters, a New Stem and part of the Cutwater was put to the Ship. Stopt the Scuttle, grav'd the Ship, and haul'd off to our Moorings.

8. The Spaniards view'd us, with astonishment, and the Governor observ'd that he believed we cou'd build a ship in a month.

9. The Brig Hope, Joseph Ingrahim, arriv'd here, on the 1st from Canton, 169 and sail'd this day on a Cruize.

10. On the 10th arrived here the ship Buttersworth, 170 from London, Wm. Brown Commander; Ship Margaret, James Magee, and Brig Hope, Joseph Ingrahim.

11. And on the llth arriv'd the Sloop Prince La Boo, 171 Capt. Gordon from London. These vessells were all in the fur trade. The Laboo was a tender to the Buttersworth.

16. The Ship Margaret 172 put to sea, under charge of Mr. Lamb, 1st Officer Capt. Magee residing with the Spanish governor for the benefit of his health.

22. This Day the Columbia was ready for sea, and in fine order. 'Have painted her complete.

23. Arriv'd the English brig Three B's, 173 Lieutenant Alder,

169 The Hope left Macao on ist April, 1792, and arrivel at Cox Strait (Parry Passage), Queen Charlotte Islands, on 2nd July. She had spent the interval in cruising and trading around those islands.

1 70 The ship Butterworth had been a French frigate of thirty guns. She was on the coast in 1792-3 as the "mother ship" under Captain William Brown, having as tenders the Prince Lee Boo and the Jackal. At Clayoquot a few days before this arrival at Nootka, she had an encounter with the natives, in which one sea- man was killed and two severely wounded. Captain Brown represented it as an unprovoked attack upon his boats; but Ingraham learned from the Margaret a totally different version in which the seamen were said to have robbed and attempted to rob the Indians of their furs and in the resultant struggle and retaliation the losses occurred; see Washington Historical Quarterly, vol. xi, p. 26. This expedition was quite unsuccessful in obtaining furs during the season of 1792. Washington Historical Quarterly, vol. vi, p. 58. At the end of the follow- ing season the Butterworth was dispatched to England with instructions to engage in whaling and sealing in the South Seas and at Staten Land, where her com- mander had formed a temporary establishment. Vancouver's Voyage, vol. v, p. 354, 8vo. ed. 1801.

171 The small sloop Prince Lee Boo, named after a young Chief who had been taken to England by Captain Wilson. This vessel was on the coast in 1792, 1793 and 1794, as one of the vessels of the Butterworth squadron. At the end of the season of 1793, she, in company with the Jackal, sailed to China, returning again in June, 1794- See Vancouver's Voyage, vol. v, pp. 354-S, 8vo. ed. 1 80 1.

172 According to the New Vancouver Journal, Washington Historical Quarterly, vol. v, p. 224, Captain Magee was utilizing his sick leave in selling intoxicating

1 73 The full name was Three Brothers, though the Viaje refers to her as "El Bergantin Ingles Tresbes." This vessel was one of the few British ships that utterly ignored the monopoly of the South Sea Company. Soon after her arrival, following Meares' and the Americans' custom, she set up the frame of a small sloop at Nootka. For further information, see Washington Historical Quar- terly, vol. 5, p. 3i; vol, 6, p. 59 and p. 85.