CONTENTS. IX 



Ceremonies. A second Visit to one of the Villages. Leave 

 to cut Grass, purchased. The Ships sail. Presents given 

 and received at parting. - Page 247 



CHAP. II. 



The Name of the Sound, and Directions for sailing into it. Ac- 

 count of the adjacent Country. Weather. Climate. Trees. 

 Other vegetable Productions. Quadrupeds, whose Skins were 

 brought for Sale. Sea Animals. Description of a Sea Otter. 



Birds. Water Fowl. Fish. Shell-fish, &c Reptiles. 



Insects. Stones, &c. Persons of the Inhabitants. T^heir 

 Colour. Common Dress and Ornaments. Occasional Dresses 

 and monstrous Decorations of Wooden Masks. Their general 

 Dispositions. Songs. Musical Instruments. Their Eager- 

 ness to possess Iron and other Metals - - 264 



CHAP. III. 



Manner of building the Houses in Nootka Sound. Inside of them 

 described. Furniture and Utensils. Wooden Images. 

 Employments of the Men. Of the Women. Food, Animal 

 and Vegetable. Manner of preparing it. Weapons. Manu- 

 factures and Mechanic Arts. Carving- and Painting. Canoes. 



Implements for Fishing and Hunting. * Iron Tools. Man- 

 ner of procuring that Metal. Remarks on their Language, 

 and a Specimen of it. Astronomical and Nautical Observations 

 made in Nootka Sound _ . _ . 287 



CHAP. IV. 



A Storm after sailing from Nootka Sound. Resolution springs .a 

 Leak. Pretended Strait of Admiral de Fonte passed unex- 

 amined. Progress along the Coast of America. Beering's 

 Bay. Kaye's Island. Account of it. The Ships come to 

 Anchor. Visited by the Natives. Their Behaviour. Fond- 

 ness for Beads and Iron. Attempt to plunder the Discovery. 

 Resolution's Leak stopped. Progress up the Sound. Messrs. 

 Gore and Roberts sent to examine its Extent. Reasons 

 against a Passage to the North through it. The Ships proceed 

 tlown it, to the open Sea - -.-.- 313 



CHAP. V. 



The Inlet called Prince William's Sound. Its Extent. =- Per- 

 sons of the Inhabitants described. Their Dress. Incision of 

 their under Lip. Various other Ornaments. Their Boats. 

 Weapons, fishing and hunting Instruments. Utensils. Tools. 



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