. . good success.
. . They discovered a harbor in latitude 46 degrees 53 minutes north.
. . . This is Gray's Harbor. Here they were attacked by the natives,
and the savages had a considerable slaughter made among them. They
next entered Columbia River, and went up it about thirty miles, and
doubted not it was navigable upwards of a hundred miles. . . . The
ship (_Columbia_) during the cruise had collected upwards of seven
hundred sea-otter skins and fifteen thousand skins of other species."
The pictures made by Davidson, the artist, on the second voyage, owned
by collectors in Boston, tell their own story. From all these sources,
and from the descendants of Gray, the Rev. Edward G. Porter collected
data for his lecture before the Massachusetts Historical Society,
afterward published in the _New England Magazine_ of June, 1892. The
_Massachusetts Historical Proceedings_ for 1892 have, by all odds, the
most complete collection of data bearing on Gray. The archives include
the medal and three of Davidson's drawings, also papers relating to the
_Columbia_ presented by Barrell.
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