cargoes were lightered across the river. Alex. Henry and Duncan McTavish were drowned in May, 1814, when crossings the river to the ship. The William and Ann, which brought David Douglas into the river in April, 1825, anchored off Point Ellice. There was no occasion for ships to navigate the river higher up until after the building of Fort Vancouver in 1825, but soon after that date we begin to find record of the use of the "Point Tongue channel," and of vessels dropping down to Baker's Bay by way of the "Sandy Island."