“We coasted along the land* at about West-South-West for six
miles, and met a canoe with two boys in it, who were dispatched to
summon the people on that part of the coast to join them. The
troublesome fellow now forced himself into my canoe, and pointed
out a narrow channel on the opposite shore, that led to his village,
and requested us to steer towards it, which I accordingly ordered.
His importunities now became very irksome, and he wanted to see
everything we had, particularly my instruments, concerning which he
must have received information from my young man. He asked for
my hat, my handkerchief, and in short, everything that he saw about
me. At the same time he frequently repeated the unpleasant intel-
ligence that he had been shot at by people of my colour. At some
distance from the land a channel opened to us, at South-West by
West, and pointing that way, he made me understand that ““Macubah”
came there with his large canoe. When we were in mid-channel, |
perceived some sheds or the remains of old buildings on the shore;
and as, from that circumstance I thought it probable that some Euro-
peans might have been there I directed my steersman to make for
that spot. The traverse is upwards of three miles North-West.’’!9

“** Named by Vancouver King’s Island.”’

There are two inlets on the opposite shore, Cascade
and Elcho. The latter would better correspond to the
description of a “narrow channel’ especially as the
“troublesome fellow”’ said that it led to his village. There
was at that time a large village belonging to the Bella
Bellas at the head of Elcho Harbour, but there is no
account of anything of the kind in Cascade Inlet by Van-
couver, who took observations at its head. He does
mention a village to the south of the point at the entrance
of Cascade Inlet,?° but this was probably the home of the
more peacefully inclined Indians who visited Mackenzie
just after his arrival and who said that ““Macubah” had
come to their village in boats, which these people repre-
sented by imitating our manner of rowing.’

The “troublesome fellow,’’ on the other hand, made
no mention of Vancouver having visited his village,
although he had a great deal to say of him in other respects,
facts which bear out the supposition that the village lay
at the head of Elcho Harbour, one of the few parts of this
portion of the coast which Vancouver did not visit.

19 See page 345, Mackenzie's Voyages.
20 See Vancouver's Voyage 1801, ed. vol. 4, p. 15.
21 See Mackenzie’s Voyages, pp. 346-347,

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