Maquinna

They came to anchor in that same friendly cove in the sound where Captain Cook had found shelter ten years before.

Maquinna, the chief, came to welcome him with all his people.

Captain Meares went on shore.

He said Comacalla would shortly land, so the Indians all stood about to see this much-traveled chief.

This was to be a coaster, to run into and out of little harbors and creeks along the coast and buy furs at the Indian villages.

While they were building this, Captain Meares sent the smaller of his two sailing ships north to explore and buy furs, while he went south in the larger one to do the same thing.

Chief Maquinna said he would take care of the carpenters and the few white men left behind.

Coasting slowly southward on a pleasant June day in seventeen eighty-eight, Captain Meares came to the entrance of a great inlet.

On his way south in that first voyage, after getting out of the ice, Mires had stopped at Nootka Sound and again at the Sandwich Islands, as the Hawaiian Islands were then called.

At Nootka Sound he found a chief called Comequella, a brother of the great chief Maquinna, who wanted to see the world.

Meares took Comequella on board.

At Oahu he found a Sandwich Island chief, Tianna, who also wanted to go sightseeing, so Meares took him also, and they sailed away for China.

Meares had a curious shipload with him.

They came to anchor in that same friendly cove in the sound where Captain Cook had found shelter ten years before.

Maquinna, the chief, came to welcome him with all his people.

Captain Meares went on shore.