and accordingly ſearched the coaſt from 36° to 60° North; the inland part of which was before little known to European navigators. I alſo ſurveyed ſeveral bays, harbours and creeks, and diſcovered many conſiderable inlets, particularly between 50° and 53° North, which were ſuppoſed to communicate with Hudſon's Bay[1]. I likewiſe made two voyages to China, but, on my return from the firſt of them, was unfortunately captured by the Spaniards at Nootka-Sound, and ſent a priſoner to the port of St. Blas in the Gulph of California. From thence I was permitted to go to Mexico, to make my appeal to the Viceroy; a journey, including my return to St. Blas, of eighteen hundred miles. But after being detained as a priſoner thirteen months, and having loſt four of my five veſſels, with moſt of my Officers and half the crew, who had become the victims of diſeaſe, I was at length
- ↑ Theſe inlets have ſince been more particularly examined by Capt. Vancouver of the Royal Navy, by order of the Board of Admiralty.
