looking at us for some time, and then returned; all the signs of friendship we could make did not prevail on them to come nearer.  After dinner I took two boats and went in search of them, in the cove where they were first seen, accompanied by several of the officers and gentlemen.  We found the canoe (at least a-canoe) hauled upon the shore near to two small huts, where were several fire-places, some fishing-nets, a few fish lying on the shore, and some in the canoe.  But we saw no people; they probably had retired into the woods.  After a short stay, and leaving in the canoe some medals, looking-glasses, beads, &c. we embarked and rowed to the head of the cove, where we found nothing remarkable.  In turning back we put ashore at the same place as before; but still saw no people.  However, they could not be far off, as we smelled the smoke of fire, though we did not see it.  But I did not care to search farther, or to force an interview which they seemed to avoid; well knowing that the way to obtain this, was to leave the time and place to themselves.  It did not appear that any thing I had left had been touched; however, I now added a hatchet, and, with the night, returned on board.

On the 29th, were showers till the afternoon; when a party of the officers made an excursion up the bay; and Mr Forster and his party were out botanizing.  Both parties returned in the evening without meeting with any thing worthy of notice; and the two following days, every one was confined to the ship on account of rainy stormy weather.

In the afternoon of the 1st of April, accompanied by several of the gentlemen, I went to see if any of the articles I had left for the Indians were taken away.  We found every thing remaining in the canoe; nor did it appear that any body had been there since.  After shooting some birds, one of which was a duck, with a blue-grey plumage and soft bill, we, in the evening, returned on board.

The 2d, being a pleasant morning, Lieutenants Clerke and Edgecumbe, and the two Mr Forsters, went in a boat up the bay to search for the productions of nature; and myself, Lieutenant Pickersgill, and Mr Hodges, went to take a view of the N.W. side.  In our way, we touched at the seal-rock, and killed three seals, one of which afforded us much sport.  After passing several isles, we at length came to the most northern and western arms of the bay; the same as is formed by the land of Five Fingers Point.  In the bottom of this arm or cove, we found many ducks, wood-hens, and other wild fowl, some of which we killed, and returned on board at ten o’clock in the evening; where the other party had arrived several hours before us, after having had but indifferent sport.  They took with them a black dog we had got at the Cape, who, at the first musket they fired, ran into the woods, from whence he would not return.  The three following days were rainy; so that no excursions were made.