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.

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.