[Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific by Gabriel Franchere]@TWC D-Link bookNarrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific
CHAPTER VI
6/11
During the night, the wind fell, the clouds dispersed, and the sky became serene.
On the morning of the 24th, we found that the current had carried us near the coast again, and we dropped anchor in fourteen fathoms water, north of Cape Disappointment.
The _coup d'oeil_ is not so smiling by a great deal at this anchorage, as at the Sandwich islands, the coast offering little to the eye but a continuous range of high mountains covered with snow.
[Illustration: ENTRANCE OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER.
_Ship Tonquin, crossing the bar, 25th March 1811._] Although it was calm, the sea continued to break over the reef with violence, between Cape Disappointment and Point Adams.
We sent Mr.
Mumford (the second mate) to sound a passage; but having found the breakers too heavy, he returned on board about mid-day.
Messrs.
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