Obfervatories erected, and Carpenters fet to work.— fealoufy o f the
Inhabitants of the Sound to prevent other Tribes having Intercourfe
with the Ships.— Stormy and rainy Weather.— Progrefs round the
Sound.— Behaviour of the Natives at their Villages Their Manner
o f drying F fh , &c.— Remarkable Vifit from Strangers, and introductory
Ceremonies.— A fecond Viftt to one of the Villages.— Leave
to cut Grafs, purchafed.— The Ships fail. — Prefents given and
received at parting. . 269
C H A~p T II.
The Name of the Sound, and Directions fo r failing into it.— Account
o f the adjacent Country.— Weather.— Climate Trees.— Other vegetable
Productions.— Quadrupeds, vohofe Skins were brought for
Sale.— Sea Animals.— Defcription of a Sea Otter.—Birds.— Water
Fowl.—Fijh.— Shell-f/h, dye— Reptiles.—InfeCls.— Stones, & c.—
Perfons o f the Inhabitants— Their Colour.— Common Drefs and
Ornaments. — Occajional Dreffes, and monfrous Decorations o f
wooden Majks.— Their general Difpofttions.— Songs__Mufical Infruments.—
Their Eagernefs topoffefs Iron and other Metals. 288
C H A P . III.
Manner o f building the Houfes in Nootka Sound.— Inf.de of them deferred.—
Furniture and Utenfils.— Wooden Images— Employments
o f the Men.— O f the Women,— Food, animal and vegetable. Manner
o f preparing i t— Weapons.— Manufactures and mechanic Arts.
— Carving ;and Painting'.— Canoes.'— Implements fo r ffhing and
hunting.— Iron Tools.— Manner of procuring that Metals— Remarks
on their Language, and'a Specimen o f it.— Aflrommical and'nautical.
Obfervations made in Nootka Sound. 313
C H A P . IV.
A Storm, .after failing from Nootka Sound.— Refolutionfprmgs a Leak.
Pretended Strait o f Admiral de Fonte pcffed unexamined. Pros
f i f i
grefs along the Coajl of America.— Peering's Bay— Kaye's Ifland.—
Account o f it.—The Ships come to an Anchor.—Vifited by the Natives.—
Their Behaviour.— Fondnefs for Beads and Iron.— Attempt
to plunder the Dfcovery.— R e f lation's Leak flopped.— Progrefs up
the Sound.— Mejfrs. Gore and Robertsfent to examine its Extent.—
Reafons againjl a Pajfage to the North through it.—The Ships proceed
down it, to the open Sea. 3I 1
C H A P . V.
The Inlet called Prince William's Sound. —Its Extent.— Perfons of the
Inhabitants defcribed.— Their Drefs.— Incifion of the under Lip.—
Various other Ornaments. — Their Boats.— Weapons, ffhing, and
hunting Inflruments.— Utenftls.— Tools.— Ufes Iron is applied to.—
Food.— Language, and a Specimen of it.—Animals.— Birds.— Fifh.
Iron and Beads, whence received. 3 ^6
C H A P . VI.
Progrefs along the Coafl.— Cape Elizabeth.— Cape St. Herniogenes. •
Accounts o f Beering's Voyage very defective. Point Banks.— Cape
Douglas.— Cape Bede.— Mount St. Augufin— Hopes o f finding a
Pajfage up an Inlet.— The Ships proceed up it.— Indubitable Marks
o f its being a River.— Named Cook’s River.— The Ships return
down it.— Various Vifits from the Natives.— Lieutenant King lands,
and takes pojfefflon o f the Country.— His Report,—The Reflution
runs aground on a Shoal.— Reflections on the Difcovery of Cook s
River.—The conftderable Tides in it accounted for. ' 382
C H A P . VII.
Difcoveries after leaving Cook's River.— I f and o f St. Hermo-
genes.-— Cape "Whitfunddy.—Cape Greville.— Cape Barnabas.—
Two-headed Point— Trinity Ifland. Beering's Foggy, I f and.—
V ol. II. a A-beautiful