A voyage round the world; 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 . ,C J7t^Sf l-y T-^^tra^^/^&.GGif^. NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 215 were obliged to warp in. In heaving up our ftream an-chor, the ftock broke clofe to the fhank, and as it wasan iron ftock, the anchor was rendered ufelefs. This ac- was likely to prove a very unlucky one, as I hadfpared Captain Dixon an anchor in the room of one whichhe loft at Atoui; fo that I now had not a fmall one toftea
A voyage round the world; 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 . ,C J7t^Sf l-y T-^^tra^^/^&.GGif^. NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 215 were obliged to warp in. In heaving up our ftream an-chor, the ftock broke clofe to the fhank, and as it wasan iron ftock, the anchor was rendered ufelefs. This ac- was likely to prove a very unlucky one, as I hadfpared Captain Dixon an anchor in the room of one whichhe loft at Atoui; fo that I now had not a fmall one tofteady the fhip with except a kedge, which would nothold with the leaft wind. By three oclock, havingwarped the fhip into a good birth, we anchored withthe beft bower in feven fathoms and a half water over amuddy bottom, and moored with a hawfer made faft tothe North fliore. When moored, we lay in five fathomsat low water. The people were employed in getting mylong-boat and the whale-boat belonging to each fhip readyfor going up the Sound on a trading expedition, under thedireAicn of Captain Dixon ; and in the mean time I pro-pofed ftaying with the fhips, in order to have them hauledon fh
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