It lies to the south of Charles Island, with only a narrow channel between.
[Illustration: Looking west from Fortescue Bay, where the _Spray_ was chased by Indians.

(From a photograph.)] By daylight the next morning the _Spray_ was again under way, beating hard; but she came to in a cove in Charles Island, two and a half miles along on her course.

Here she remained undisturbed two days, with both anchors down in a bed of kelp.

Indeed, she might have remained undisturbed indefinitely had not the wind moderated; for during these two days it blew so hard that no boat could venture out on the strait, and the natives being away to other hunting-grounds, the island anchorage was safe.

But at the end of the fierce wind-storm fair weather came; then I got my anchors, and again sailed out upon the strait.
Canoes manned by savages from Fortescue now came in pursuit.