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After this we again resumed our interior examination, - keeping the Continental shore a board to the Latitude of 5'2½ - here a series of dirty raining weather obliged us in some measure to relinquish our northern pursuits for this season, & being informed by one of the Traders of the Store Ship's being at Nootka and the Catastrophe that befel her, we again came out to sea about the Lat: 51o-40' on the 20th of Augt. & arrived here on the 20th where we found Dr Quadra Governor of St: Blas & Commander in Chief of the Royal Navy of Maxico & Callifornia an officer to whose liberality & friendly hospitality we are all ready to testify our sincerest gratitude, He had his broad pendant on board a Brig laying in the cove, the rest of his vessels, to the number of six, being at this time out examining different parts of the Coast; two of which we had left in De Fuca's Straits behind Nootka.
He lived on shore at a very decent planked House, considering the Situation, where he kept an open table, I may say, for the officers of every Vessel that visited the Port & supplied them