360 cook's voyage to :\iay, 



the skins of sea-otters, martins, hares, and other 

 animals, a few of their darts, and a small supply of 

 salmon and halibut. In exchange for these they 

 took old clothes, beads, and pieces of iron. We 

 found that they were in possession of large iron 

 knives, and of sky-blue glass beads, such as we had 

 found amongst the natives of Prince William's 

 Sound. These latter they seemed to value much, and 

 consequently those which we now gave them. But 

 their inclination led them, especially, to ask for 

 large pieces of iron, which metal, if I was not much 

 mistaken, they called by the name of go one, though 

 like their neighbours in Prince William's Sound, they 

 seemed to have many significations to one word. 

 They evidently spoke the same language ; as the 

 words keeta, naema, oonala, and a few others of the 

 most common we heard in that sound, were also 

 frequently used by this new tribe. After spending 

 about two hours between the one ship and the other, 

 they all retired to the western shore. 



At nine o'clock we came to an anchor in sixteen 

 fathoms water, about two leagues from the west 

 shore, and found the ebb already begun. At its 

 greatest strength it ran only three knots in the hour, 

 and fell upon a perpendicular, after we had anchored, 

 twenty-one feet. The weather was misty, with driz- 

 zling rain, and clear, by turns. At the clear inter- 

 vals, we saw an opening between the mountains on 

 the eastern shore, bearing east from the station of 

 the ships, with low land, which we suppose to be 

 islands lying between us and the main land. Low 

 land was also seen to the northward, that seemed to 

 extend from the foot of the mountains on the one 

 side to those on the other ; and at low water we per- 

 ceived large shoals stretching out from this low land, 

 some of which were at no great distance from us. 

 From these appearances, we were in some doubt 

 whether the inlet did not take an easterly direction, 

 through the above opening, or whether that opening 



