uaw did the honors with all
the hauteur of the Indian race. Maquinna then entertained his visitors
with a sham battle of painted warriors, followed by a mask dance. Not
to be outdone, the whites struck up fife and drum, and gave a wild
display of Spanish fandangoes and Scotch reels. In honor of the day's
outing, it was decided to name the large island which Vancouver had
almost circumnavigated, Quadra and Vancouver.

When Maquinna returned this visit, there were fireworks, and more
toasts, and more salutes. All this {279} was very pleasant; but it was
not business. Then Vancouver requested Don Quadra to ratify the
international agreement between England and Spain; but there proved to
be a wide difference of opinion as to what that agreement meant.
Vancouver held that it entailed the surrender of Spain's sovereignty
from San Francisco northward. Don Quadra maintained that it only
surrendered Spanish rights north of Juan de Fuca, leaving the northwest
coast free to all nations for trade. With Vancouver it was all or
nothing. Don Quadra then suggested that letters be sent to Spain and
England for more specific instructions. For this purpose Lieutenant
Broughton was to be despatched overland across Mexico to Europe. It
was at this stage that Robert Gray came down from the north on the
damaged _Columbia_, to receive assistance from Quadra. Within three
weeks Gray had sailed for Boston, Don Quadra for New Spain, and
Vancouver to the south, to examine that Columbia River of Gray's before
proceeding to winter on the Sandwich Islands.

The three English ships hauled out of Nootka in the middle of October,
steering for that new river of Gray's, of which Vancouver had expressed
such doubt. The foaming reefs of Cape Disappointment were sighted and
the north entrance seen just as Gray had described it. The _Chatham_
rode safely inside the heavy cross swell, though her small boat smashed
to chips among the breakers; but on Sunday, October {280} 21, such
mountainous seas were running that Vancouver dared not risk his big
ship, the _Discovery_, across the bar. Broughton was intrusted to
examine the _Columbia_ before setting out to England for fresh orders.

The _Chatham_ had anchored just inside Cape Disappointment on the
north, then passed south to Cape Adams, using Gray's chart as guide.
Seven miles up the north coast, a deep bay was named after Gray. Nine
or ten Indian dugouts with one hundred and fifty warriors n