ABSTRACT
Although a fairly strong land breeze was blowing when we set sail from Nootka, we had no sooner completed the necessary work with the anchors and boats in the early hours of the night and made good a league on our course than the breeze began to drop. A fairly high sea from NW then threatened to set us onto the reefs off Estevan Point, 1 from which we were only two leagues distant at midnight, in a depth of thirty-two fathoms, sand. However, the outlook soon changed. With a light breeze from NNW and north favouring our SSW course from two in the morning, by sunrise we were well clear of the coast and able to begin running bases and our usual survey. Estevan Point then bore N52°E by compass five or six leagues distant, the land further east bore N87°E and the harbour entrance N15°E.
