280 JOHN LEDYARD. 



deal uneasy lest the cause of my discomposure 

 should disoblige my friends, who meant to treat me 

 in the hest manner they could. I therefore attri- 

 buted my illness to the bath, which might possibly 

 have partly occasioned it, for I am not very subject 

 to fainting. I could eat none of the breakfast, 

 however, though far from wanting an appetite. It 

 was mostly of whale, sea-horse, and bear, which, 

 though smoked, dried, and boiled, produced a com- 

 position of smells very offensive at nine or ten in 

 the morning. I therefore desired to have a r )iece 

 of smoked salmon broiled dry, which I ate with 

 some of my own biscuit. 



"After breakfast I intended to set off. on my 

 return to the ships, though there came on a dis- 

 agreeable snow-storm. But my new-found friends 

 objected to it, and gave me to understand that I 

 should go the next day, and, if I chose, three of 

 them would accompany me. This I immediately 

 agreed to, as it anticipated a favor I intended to ask 

 them, though I before much doubted whether they 

 would comply with it. I amused myself within- 

 doors while it snowed without by writing down a 

 few words of the original languages of the American 

 Indians, and of the Asiatics who came over to this 

 coast with these Russians from Kamtschatka. 



" In the afternoon the weather cleared up, and J 



