i77s- tant, the fhore forms a large bay, in w h ich w e anchored at
■ Augur<t' , ten o’clock in the forenoon, about two miles from the North
fhore, in ten fathoms water, over a grav elly bottom. T h e
South point o f the ba y bore South, 58' W e f t ; the North
point North, 43° E a ft; the bottom o f the ba y North, 6o°
Weft, two or three leagues diftant; and the two iilands we
had paffed the preceding day, North, 72* Eaft, diftant fourteen
leagu es.
Behaviour o f the Natives, the Tfchutfki, on feeing the Ships.
— Interview with fome o f them.— !Their Weapons.__
Perfons.— Ornaments.— Clothing.— Winter and. Sum-
mer Habitations.— The Ships crofs the Strait, to the
Coajl o f America.— Progrefs Northward.— Cape Mul-
grave.— Appearance o f Fields o f Ice.— Situation o f Icy
Cape.— The Sea blocked up with Ice.— Sea-horfes killed\
and ufed as Provifons.— Thefe Animals defcribed.— Di~
menfions o f one o f them.— Cape Lifburne.— Fruitlefs A ttempts
to get through the Ice, at a Difance from the
Coajl.— Obfervations on the Formation o f this Ice.__
A rriv a l on the Coajl o f A fa .— Cape North.— The Pro-
fecution o f the F y age deferred to the enfuing Tear.
A S we were ftanding into this bay, we perceived on the ,77s.
North fliore a village, and fome people, whom the ,
fight o f the ftiips feemed to have thrown into confufion, or Monday I0-
fear. We could plainly fee perfons running up the country
with burdens upon their backs. At thefe habitations I
propofed to land -, and, accordingly, went w ith three armed
boats, accompanied by fome o f the officers. About thirty
or forty men, each armed with a fpontoon, a bow, and arrows,
flood drawn up on a riling ground clofe by the village.
As we drew near, three o f them came down toward the fliore,
and were fo polite as to take o ff their caps, and to make
us low bows. We returned the c iv ility ; but this did not
i infpire