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the village which we passed. because it was abandoned, we pushed o?i with as much speed as possible to Cape Foul- weather.* which we pained, after proceed int.' forty miles along the coast. The rain continuing to fall heavily the next day, x-iit the canoe back to the Columbia from this place, it being also impossible, with so few hands, to carry it over a port a ire of sixteen miles. The Indians, too. were solicitous to leave me. when they knew that all the provisions were ex- hausted. The wind increased about midnight, two or three hours after they had departed, to a perfect hurricane, accom- panied with sleet and hail, which obliged us twice to shift our camp, as the sea rose unusually high and almost reached us. and which also rendered me very anxious about the safety of the Indians, who, as I afterward learned, were so fortunate as to gain the shelter of a creek until the storm abated. We had no protection, save what was afforded by our wet blankets and a few pine branches, and were destitute of provisions. A few berries of A rim I us Uva-Ursi were all that could be got at this place, and the wind and heavy rain almost rendered it impossible to keep up any fire. All the wild fowl had fled to the more sheltered spots; not a bird of any kind could be seen. Lonir ere dayliirht w> were ready to leave Cape Foul weather ;f well convinced that it deserved its name, as there appeared no likelihood of procuring food, we walked along the sandy beach to endeavor to reach Whitby Harbour,^ where my iruide expected to meet a fishing party. On arriv- inir there, when we found the village deserted, I can hardly de- he the state I was in. While my iruide and the Indians were collecting some drift-wtod. I made a small booth of pine branches, straw and old mats. My blanket having been drenched all day. and the heavy rain affording no oppor- [*Tlie point on the north Hide of the entrance to Wlllapa Harbor. Douguui lined Vanrouver'K nomenclature which did not alwaytt stick. Ki>. QI'AKTKKI.Y.] tOn the map belonging to the flora ttorenH Amrricann, and drawn up under Mr. DougUu'* Inspection, probably by error, Cape Foulweather In represented M on the south Hide of the Columbia and Whitby Harbor on the north. [The name "Foulweather" ha* been retained todewlgnate a headland about one hundred mile* sou Hi of UK- mi HI tb uf the Columbia. Kn. (jrAKTKKl.V.J Harbor.-Kn. (.jrAKTBRLY.]