p-171- of hogs, potatoes, &c. and purchafed a variety of ornaments, fuch as fans,
necklaces, bracelets, cloaks, and caps, compofed of red and yellow feathers,
which were very curious, the latter being made in the form of helmets. The
p. 177. name of this ifland is A’towi. And on the-.29th they difcovered one of a
p. 174. fmaller lize, named O’neehow, which had a more defolate appearance than the
other, but the produdtions were nearly fimilar to it. The canoes or boats were
the neateft they had ever feen, being compofed of two different coloured woods,
the bottom part dark, the upper light.
p. »88. On the 29th of March they fell in with the N. W . coaft of America, in
p. 189. latitude 490 28’ north. Two or three canoes, with feveral of the natives on
board, put off to the (hips, and addreffed them in a very harih uncouth
language. They were painted red, and fome wore a kind of garment, edged
with fur, and ftftened acrofs the ihoulders like the New Zealand hahoos.
One of them had feveral ikins fewed together, and thrown over his ihoulders.
p. 190. The next day many others came off, of whom they purchafed a cOniiderable
number of bear, wolf, lynx, and fea beaver ikins. They appeared to be a
miferable fet of beings, middle iized, and ill made; their colour was rather
lighter than any they had met with, but rendered black by fikh and dirt,
p. 191. The women could fcarcely be diftinguiihed from the men, but, on a clofe examination,
it was obferved that they were not ornamented like the men • and
that, with refpeit to their ftature, they were in general ihorter.
p. 192. They expofed to fale feveral human ikulls and dried hands: but whether
they were Cannibals, though it was judged fo from this circumftance, could
not be difcovered. They wore their hair, which was long and fhaggy, parted
on the top of the head, and fprinkled or powdered with the down of birds.
p. 196. So far from finding a great number of wild fowl here, as they expedled from
the fituation, they fcarcely faw a fingle duck; a ihag or two, a few gulls, and
p. 197. a fmall flock of plovers, all of which were very ihy, were the whole feen by
p. 205, the (hooting parties. Nor were there either hares ordeer to be found. Captain
Cook, in an excurfion along ihore, difcovered two of their towns, at both of
which he landed, and experienced very civil treatment from the inhabitants.
Their
Their; houfes were very indifferent, built of wood, and ffunk abominably of
, fiihf vail numbers of which were hung up to dry in every part of them.
During their (lay the natives entertained them feveral times with fongs and
dances in their canoes: one of them ufually got up and danced, finging at the
fame time, whilft the others beat time with their paddles againft the Tides of
their canoes, and at a particular inftant, they all joined with the finger in a
kind of chorus. One day a man danced in an antic manner, and wore a maik, i
which he varied feveral times during the performance.
This place, which Captain Cook named'King George’s Sound, is fituated on 1
the N. W. coaft of America, and is very extenfive: it lies in latitude 490 36’
north, and longitude 2330 28' eaft. The whole Sound is furrounded by high land,
which, in fomje places, appear very^broken and rugged, and is in general covered
with wood,to the very top; the foil is rich and loamy inland, but, as you approach
the ihore, it becomes .more light and fandy. That the natives had communication
with fome of the fouthern fettlements, feems probable from their
offering two filver fpoons to. fale; which appeared.to be of a very old make,
and fomewhat different in form from thofe ufed in England.
On the 26th of April they left King George’s .Sound, and on the 12th of May p
put into another opening of the fame coaft, which Captain Cook named
Sandwich Sound. This extenfive bay they explored all round, and found the, p
natives on the different borders of it to referable, in moil refpe<5ls, thofe of
King George’s Sound, and to form'a line of connexion between thefe and the
natives of Unalafchka, and the other weftern, parts of America. They were
rather a better looking people than the former, and were fat and jolly, as if
they lived well.
Their drefs was made of the guts of filh fewed together, with fleevesdown to
the wrifts, under this they had jackets made of the ikins of beafts. Their
under lip was perforated lengthways, .through the opening of which they ?
frequently put th,eir tongues : fome of: them had blue beads, and other ornaments,
fixed in this flit, and alfo through the griftle of the nofe. They had
i u feveral
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