s ordinary Dexterity, in Swimming. — Arts and Manufactures— Curious
Specimens of their Sculpture.— Kipparee, or Method o f painting
Cloth.—Mats.— Fifhing Hooks.— Cordage.— Salt Pans.—Warlike
Inflruments. 124
C H A P . VIII.
General Account o f the Sandwich Iflands continued.— Government.—
People divided into three ClaJJes.— Power o f Eree-taboo.— Genea-
logy o f the Kings o f Owhyhee and MoweC.'—Power o f the Chiefs.
— State of-the inferior Clafs.— Punijhment of Crimes.— Religion,—
Society of Priejls.— The Orono.— Their Idols.— Songs chanted by the
Chiefs, before they drink Ava.—Human Sacrifices.— Cuflom of knocking
out the fore Teeth.—Notions with regard to a future State.—
Marriages.— Remarkable Inftance o f Jealoufy. — Funeral Rites.1
53
B O O K VI.
Tranfa&ions during the fecond Expedition to the North, by
the Way of Kamtfchatka ; and on the Return Home, by
the Way of Canton, and the Cape of Good Hope.
C H A P . I.
Departure from Oneeheow.— Fruitlefs Attempt to difcover Modoopa-
pappa.— Courfe fleered fo r Awatjka Bay.— Occurrences during that
Paffage— Sudden Change from Heat to Cold.— Diflrefs occqfioned
by the leaking of the Rffiolution.— View o f the Coafl o f Kamtfchatka.
— Extreme Rigour o f the Climate.— Lofe Sight o f the Difcovery.—
The Refolution enters the Bay o f Awatjka.— ProfpcB of the Town
of St. Peter and St. Paul.—Party fent qfhore.— Their Reception by
the Commanding Officer o f the Port.— Meffage difpatched to the
Commander at Bolcheretjk.— Arrival o f the Difcovery.— Return of
8 the
the Mejfengers, from the Commander.— Extraordinary Mode o f travelling.—
Vifit from a Merchant,, and a German Servant belonging
to the Commander.. . jy j
C H A P . II.
Scarcity o f Provifions and Stores at the Harbour o f St. Peter and
St, Paul.— A Party fet: out to vifit the Commander at Bolcheretjk•
— Paffage up the River Awatjka.— Account o f their Reception by
the Toion o f Karatchin.— Defcription o f a-Kamtfchadale Drefs._
Journey on Sledges.— Defcription o f this < Mode o f Travellings—
Arrival at •Natcheekin..—Account o f hot Springs.— Embark on the
Ro/choireka.— Reception at/ the Capital.— Generous and hofpitable
ConduB o f : the Commander and the Garrifon.—Defcription o f Bolcheretjk.,—
Prefents from,the Commander ¿— Ruffian and Kamtfchadale
Dancing.— AffeBing Departure from , Bolcheretjk.— Return to St.
Peter and St., Pauls, accompanied by . Major Behm, who vi/its the
Skips,—Generofity'oJ. the Sailors,— Difpatches fent by Major Behm
to Peterjburg.— His Departure and Character. 196
O 'H A P. Ill;
Continuation o f TranfaBicms-in the Harbour o f St. Peter and St. P a u l
’Abundance o f .Ftfhs— Death o f a Seaman belonging to the Refolution—
The Ruffian Hofpital put under -the Care of' the Ship's Sur-
gedns. Supply o f Flour and. Cattle, — Celebration o f the King's
Birth' day. Difficulties In. failing, out of the Bay .—Eruption o f a ■
Volcano — Steer■ to the. Northward.— Cheepoonjkoi .Nofs.— Errors o f
the- Ruffian Charts,— KamtfchatJk.oi Nofs.rs-Olut.orjkoi.Nofs Tfchukotjkoi
Nofs. Ifland o f St. Laurence,— View, from the fame Pointy
o f the Coafls of.Aflq and America, and the Iflands o f St.Diomede.—
Various Attempts to get.to the North, between the-two Continents.,
— ObjlruB'ed by impenetrable Ice. — Sea-hoifes . and white , Bears.«
killed.— Captain Clerke's Determination, andfuture Dejigns. 228