While this description would apply to the temporary shelters now used by the Yakutat Indians when on their summer hunting and fishing expeditions, it by no means describes the houses in which they pass the winter. These are large and substantially built of planks hewn from spruce trees, and in some instances supported from the inside by four huge posts, carved and painted to represent grotesque figures. In the center of the roof there is a large opening through which the smoke escapes from the fire kindled in an open space in the floor. But few of the Indian villages of Alaska, excepting perhaps the homes of the Thlinkets in the Alexandrian archipelago, are better built or more comfortable than those at Port Mulgrave. On the map of Port Mulgrave already referred to, "Point Turner" and "Point Carrew" appear. The former was named for the second mate of the _Queen Charlotte_, who was the first of her officers to land; the second name was probably designed to honor another officer of the expedition, but of this I am not positive. DOUGLAS, 1788.[5] [Footnote 5: Voyage of the _Iphigenia_; Captain Douglas: in Voyages made in the years 1788-1789 from China to the Northwest Coast of America. John Meares, 4°, London, 1790.] In 1788, another trading vessel, the ship _Iphigenia_, in command of Captain Douglas, visited the southern shore of Alaska and anchored in Yakutat bay; but no special account of the country or the inhabitants is recorded in the narrative of the voyage. MALASPINA, 1792.[6] [Footnote 6: Relacion del viage hecho por las goletas Sutil y Mexicana en el año de 1792 para reconocer el estrecho de Fuca; con una introduccion en que se da noticia de las expediciones executadas anteriormente por los Españoles en busca del paso del noroeste de la América [Por Don Dionisio Alcala Galiano]. Madrid, 1802 [accompanied by an atlas]. Pp. CXII-CXXI.] About a hundred years ago the interest felt by the maritime nations of Europe in a "Northwest passage," connecting the {63} northern Atlantic with the northern Pacific, was revived by the renewal of the discussion as to the authenticity of Maldonado's reported discovery of the "Strait of Annan." The western entrance to this strait was supposed to be about in the position of Yakutat bay. Spain, in particular, after three hundred years of exploration and discovery in all parts of the world, was still anxious to extend her conquests, and, if possible, to discover the long-sought "Northwest passage." Two of her ships, the _Descubierta_ and _Atrevida_, were then at Acapulco, in command of Don Alejandro Malaspina, who was engaged in a voyage of discovery.