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men and it would be easy to show that these fatal dis- asters might have been averted by a different treatment of the natives and by prudence and proper precaution on the part of their civilized visitors." 24

This attack and its repulse were the subject of a bal- lad composed by one of the crew. 25 All efforts have so far been unavailing to obtain a copy of it. Further search may however bring it to light.

From Barrell Sound Kendrick sailed southward and on 12th July 1791 entered Nootka Sound once more. The Spaniards were still in possession, but his friend Mar- tinez was not in command, he having been ordered back to Spain on his wife's complaint that he had failed to support her and her child. The frowning fort still guarded the entrance. Elisa, the commandante, records that Kendrick "paso por nuestra castillo con les mechas encendidas y gente armada." Through the speaking trumpet the Spaniards warned him not to enter, but he used a conveniently deaf ear. They recognized the ves- sel and after he had anchored at Marvinas Bay, now sometimes still called Kendrick Cove, an officer was de- spatched to forbid any trade. Kendrick replied that he had come from Macao to carry on trade in sea otter skins, but would obey the order and depart immediately. 26 As usual his movements were leisurely ; we find that on 20th July 1791 he purchased from Maquinna the harbour with "all the land, rivers, creeks, harbours, islands, etc., with all the produce of sea and land appertaining there- to." In leaving Kendrick sailed out by way of Esperanza Inlet which two years previously, as we shall see later, had been explored by his son John. It may even be, from some remarks in HaswelPs Log, that Captain Kendrick

24 Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, Vol. 7 (1864), p. 420 et seq.

25 Cape Cod History and Genealogy, No. 35, Edward Kenwrick, p. 10.

26 Papers Relating to the Treaty of Washington, Berlin Arbitration, Vol. 5, p. 176. Washington, 1872.