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feveral fpears which were headed with iron; and knives near eighteen inches
long, ihaped like a hanger; which makes it probable that they have, by fome
means or other, connexions with the Ruffians.
On the 15th of May feveral of them came along fide in their canoes, and
brought with them the calumet of peace, which was the firft infiance the
/hips had met with of the ufe of this American inftrument. Innumerable
flocks of wild fowl were feen here, but they were fo ihy, that very few could
be killed. On the 19th they faw an incredible number o f whales and feals
fporting around them, from whence they concluded that they were nearly out
of the Sound, and not far from the fea.]
Accordingly, on the next day, they found themfelves again in the ocean, in
which they continued to trace the coaft to the northward, without meeting
with any very remarkable incidents, till they arrived, on the 27th of June, at
the Iiland of Unalafchka. As they were ftanding acrofs a very deep bay, they
obferved a number of people in canoes very bufily employed in towing a
whale on ffiore, which they probably had juft killed. Some of them made
immediately for the ihips, and feemed very glad to fee the crews. In moft
refpefts they feemed to refemble the inhabitants of Sandwich Sound.
The next day both ihips anchored in a fine harbour. Many of the natives
came on board, who feemed to take them for Ruffians, from their frequent
repetition of the word roojky. They alfo perfectly underftood the ufe of tobacco,
which they aiked for by that name; and when it was given them, immediately
put it to their mouths. From thefe circumfiances it is plain they mufi have
frequent intercourfe with the Ruffians.
They purchafed feveral darts, and other articles of curiofity from the natives,
who were a very well behaved people, for which they gave them in exchange
tobacco, beads, and nails. Some of them had two, others three holes in their
under lip, and not a continued one, as the inhabitants of Sandwich Sound. They
brought with them a vegetable, fomething refembling celery, which they eat
a good deal of.
On
On the 30th fome of the gentlemen, having been informed that there was a
fmall Indian village near the entrance of the harbour, vifited it. They were
very civilly received by the inhabitants, who pulled off their bonnets, and
made very low bows. The town confifted of eight or ten houfes, and contained
not more than eighteen or twenty people, including women and children.
At fome diftance from the houfes were erefted ftages for the purpofe of drying
fiih, upon which hung large pieces of halibut and whale’s fleih; and in feveral
places were great numbers of the ihells of fea eggs, which appear to make no
fmall part of their food. There were only two women, one very old and grey
headed; and another about twenty, who had a child in her arms: the latter
was dreffed in a feal ikin jacket, and her cheeks were tatowed in a particular
manner; ihe had an ornament in her under lip, made of bone, and was, to all
appearance, tolerably neat and clean. T h e men were clothed in bird ikin
jackets, the feather fide inwards. They bowed very refpedtfully to the gentlemen
at their departure. A ihooting party killed a brace of fine groufe, and three j
or four birds of the fnipe kind; one of them caught a young fox.
July the 2d the ihips flood again to fea, and continued flill to explore the p
coaft to the north till the 16th, when they arrived at a point of land which p
Captain Cook named Cape Newenham. The land was covered with plants
and flowers of various kinds, which afforded a moft pleafing appearance, and
at the fame time emitted a delightful fragrance, particularly the myrrh ciftus
which was then in full flower. Among the plants and ihrubs found here were
cranberries, whortleberries, monks-hood, geranium, the faranne, (or kamt-
fchatfdale lilly) poppy, dock, violet, golden rod, and valerian. The foil is a p
kind of light fand, with a fmall mixture of clay, and very ftony. A deer and p
fawn were feen, feveral red foxes, and the tracks of bears. The rocks fwarmed
with ihags and guillemots.
On the 20th they arrived on a part of the coaft, in latitude 60’ north,
where they got into ihoal water, on which account Captain Cook denominated
the place Shoal Nefs, Here a fleet of fmall canoes, confifting of twenty-
eight, made their appearance; and fome of them came along fide. The people
in them were clothed in garments made of fkins of the fpotted field
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