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same might be said of their persons, which, to ap- 

 pearance, were always clean and decent, without 

 grease or dirt ; and the wooden vessels in which their 

 victuals are probably put, were kept in excellent 

 order, as well as their boats, which were neat and 

 free from lumber. 



Their language seems difficult to be understood at 

 first, not from any indistinctness or confusion in their 

 words and sounds, but from the various significations 

 they have. For they appeared to use the very same 

 word frequently on very different occasions, though 

 doubtless this might, if our intercourse had been 

 of longer duration, have been found to be a mistake 

 on our side. The only words I could obtain, and for 

 them I am indebted to Mr Anderson *, were those 

 that follow, the first of which was also used at Nootka 

 in the same sense, though we could not trace an 

 affinity between the two dialects in any other instance. 



Akashou, What's the name of that ? 



Namuk, An ornament for the ear. 



Lukluk C A brown shaggy skin, per- 



\ haps a bear's. 

 Aa, Yes. 



Natooneshuk, The skin of a sea-otter. 



Keeta, Give me something. 



N aema | Give me something in ex- 



\ change, or barter. 



i Of or belonging to me. 

 Ooonaka, J Will you barter for this 



{ that belongs to me ? 

 Manaka, 



Ahleu, A spear. 



Weena, or Veena, Stranger calling to one. 



Keelashuk, i Gu ! s f xvhich the V nutke 



I jackets. 



* We are also indebted to him for many remarks in this chapter, 

 interwoven with those of Captain Cook, as throwing considerable 

 light on many parts of his journal. 



