We weighed anchor as soon as it was high water, and, with a faint breeze, southerly, stood over to the west shore, where the return of the flood obliged us to anchor early next morning.  Soon after, several large, and some small canoes, with natives, came off, who bartered their skins; after which they sold their garments, till many of them were quite naked.  Amongst others, they brought a number of white hare or rabbit skins; and very beautiful reddish ones of foxes; but there were only two or three skins of otters.  They also sold us some pieces of salmon and halibut.  They preferred iron to every thing else offered to them in exchange.  The lip ornaments did not seem so frequent amongst them as at Prince William’s Sound; but they had more of those which pass through the nose, and in general these were also much longer.  They had, however, a greater quantity of a kind of white and red embroidered work on some parts of their garments, and on other things, such as their quivers and knife-cases.

At half-past ten, we weighed with the first of the ebb, and having a gentle breeze at south, plied down the river; in the doing of which, by the inattention and neglect of the man at the lead, the Resolution struck, and stuck fast on a bank, that lies nearly in the middle of the river, and about two miles above the two projecting bluff points before mentioned.  This bank was, no doubt, the occasion of that very strong rippling, or agitation of the stream, which we had observed when turning up the river.  There was not less than twelve feet depth of water about the ship, at the lowest of the ebb, but other parts of the bank were dry.  As soon as the ship came aground, I made a signal for the Discovery to anchor.  She, as I afterward understood, had been near ashore on the west side of the bank.  As the flood-tide came in, the ship floated off, soon after five o’clock in the afternoon, without receiving the least damage, or giving us any trouble; and, after standing over to the west shore into deep water, we anchored to wait for the ebb, as the wind was still contrary.

We weighed again with the ebb, at ten o’clock at night; and, between four and five next morning, when the tide was finished, once more cast anchor, about two miles below the bluff point, on the west shore, in nineteen fathoms water.  A good many of the natives came off when we were in this station, and attended upon us all the morning.  Their company was very acceptable; for they brought with them a large quantity of very fine salmon, which they exchanged for such trifles as we had to give them.  Most of it was split ready for drying; and several hundred weight of it was procured for the two ships.

In the afternoon, the mountains, for the first time since our entering the river, were clear of clouds; and we discovered a volcano in one of those on the west side.  It is in the latitude of 60 deg. 23’; and it is the first high mountain to the north of Mount St Augustin.  The volcano is on that side of it that is next the river, and not far from the summit.  It did not now make any striking appearance, emitting only a white smoke, but no fire.