. A voyage round the world [microform] : but more particularly to the north-west coast of America, performed in 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon : dedicated, by permission to Sir Joseph Banks, Voyages round the world; Botany; Botanique. NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. ^51 trade hi the adjacent found, or wherever he j ad|gd it likely to meet 1787 with inhabitants. ?iay. On the 6th, our cooper was employed in making fpruce beer • as we expeaed to have frequent opportunities of fupplying our- felveswith this wholefome beverage on t
. A voyage round the world [microform] : but more particularly to the north-west coast of America, performed in 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon : dedicated, by permission to Sir Joseph Banks, Voyages round the world; Botany; Botanique. NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. ^51 trade hi the adjacent found, or wherever he j ad|gd it likely to meet 1787 with inhabitants. ?iay. On the 6th, our cooper was employed in making fpruce beer • as we expeaed to have frequent opportunities of fupplying our- felveswith this wholefome beverage on the Coaft, we brought out a quantity of yeail in bottles, prepared by a Mrs Stainlby. of London j and it would be doing her injuftice not to fay, that the yeaft was now found to .afwer our moll fanguine expeftations, in working the fpruce, being equally good as when firft bi-ought from England. The people were bufied in bringing ^ water from fliore, and flowing it away in the hold, which, by this ^^ time, was compleatly over-hauled. ^ On the 7th, the King George's bottom being nearly compleated, we ftruck our top-mafts, and got every thing clear for hauling our veiiel on fliore. ^ The tide ferving at four o'clock in the morning of the 8tli we hauled on the graving bank. At eight o'clock we began to fcrape her, and having cleaned one fide, we breamed her, payii^sr hei- after- wards with a compofition of oil, tar, flufli, and chalk,"this being the beft coat we had in our power to lay on. At five in the after- noon, being nearly high water, we fwung her. in order to clean the other fide : we fcraped it on the 9th. but the weatlicr proving wet and unfavourable, Ihe could not be compleated ; fo that what hands could be fpared, were fent on (liore to cut wood. Early in the morning of the lolh. Captain Dixon returned with • the boats. As this excuriion was attended with feveral interefting circum-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images th
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