The Indians did not leave us till evening came on, and gave us
to underftand, that they would return in the morning with more
furs.
During the night, the weather was moderate, with a fteady
North Wefterly breeze; fo that.in the morning of the 6th, we were
well in with the land. In the forenoon our new friends returned,,
according to their promife, with fome excellent fea otter cloaks,
which they difpoled of with the fame facility as before. Our latitude
at noon was 53 deg. 34 min. North; the. extremes of the
land bore from South 58 deg. Eaffc to North 25 deg. Weft.
The breeze frelhening, we hove to in order to give the Indians a
better opportunity of trading, and by two o’clock we had entirely
ftripped them.
Thefe people were evidently a different tribe from that we met
with in Cloak Bay, and not fo numerous ; I could not reckon up
more than feventy-five or eighty perfons along-fide at one time.
The furs in each canoe feemed to be a diftinct property, and the
people were particularly careful to prevent their-'neighbours from
feeing what articles they bartered for. Soon after two o’clock the
Indians left us; on which we made fail, and flood along fhore, tacking
as occafion required.
Since the 2d, we had coafted' along fhore more than thirty miles,
and.now meeting with afrefh tribe of Indians, we were convinced
that this plan was attended with better and fpeedier fuccefs than
our laying at anchor could poffibly be. At eight o’clock, the extremes
of. the land in fight bore from North 1 o deg, Eaft to South
75 deg. Eaft j our diftance from fhore about fix miles. The weather