Early in the morning on the 6th, a shooting party, made up of the officers, went to Goose Cove, the place where I was the 2d; and myself, accompanied by the two Mr Forsters, and Mr Hodges, set out to continue the survey of the bay.  My attention was directed to the north side, where I discovered a fine capacious cove, in the bottom of which is a fresh-water river; on the west side several beautiful small cascades; and the shores are so steep that a ship might lie near enough to convey the water into her by a hose.  In this cove we shot fourteen ducks, besides other birds, which occasioned my calling it Duck Cove.

As we returned in the evening, we had a short interview with three of the natives, one man and two women.  They were the first that discovered themselves on the N.E. point of Indian Island, named so on this occasion.  We should have passed without seeing them, had not the man hallooed to us.  He stood with his club in his hand upon the point of a rock, and behind him, at the skirts of the wood, stood the two women, with each of them a spear.  The man could not help discovering great signs of fear when we approached the rock with our boat.  He however stood firm; nor did he move to take up some things we threw him ashore.  At length I landed, went up and embraced him; and presented him with such articles as I had about me, which at once dissipated his fears.  Presently after, we were joined by the two women, the gentlemen that were with me, and some of the seamen.  After this, we spent about half an hour in chit-chat, little understood on either side, in which the youngest of the two women bore by far the greatest share.  This occasioned one of the seamen to say, that women did not want tongue in any part of the world.  We presented them with fish and fowl which we had in our boat; but these they threw into the boat again, giving us to understand that such things they wanted not.  Night approaching, obliged us to take leave of them; when the youngest of the two women, whose volubility of tongue exceeded every thing I ever met with, gave us a dance; but the man viewed us with great attention.  Some hours after we got on board, the other party returned, having had but indifferent sport.

Next morning, I made the natives another visit, accompanied by Mr Forster and Mr Hodges, carrying with me various articles which I presented them with, and which they received with a great deal of indifference, except hatchets and spike-nails; these they most esteemed.  This interview was at the same place as last night; and now we saw the whole family, it consisted of the man, his two wives (as we supposed), the young woman before mentioned, a boy about fourteen years old, and three small children, the youngest of which was at the breast.  They were all well-looking, except one woman, who had a large wen on her upper-lip, which made her disagreeable; and she seemed, on that account, to be in a great measure neglected by the man.