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hare or rabbit skins, and very beautiful reddish ones 

 of foxes ; but there were only two or three skins of 

 otters. They also sold us some pieces of salmon and 

 halibut. They preferred iron to every thing else of- 

 fered to them in exchange. The lip-ornaments did 

 not seem so frequent amongst them as at Prince Wil- 

 liam's Sound ; but they had more of those which pass 

 through the nose, and, in general, these were also 

 much longer. They had, however, a greater quan- 

 tity of a kind of white and red embroidered work on 

 some parts of their garments, and on other things, 

 such as their quivers and knife-cases. 



At half past ten we weighed with the first of the 

 ebb, and having a gentle breeze at south, plied down 

 the river ; in doing of which, by the inattention and 

 neglect of the man at the lead, the Resolution struck, 

 and stuck fast on the bank, that lies nearly in the 

 middle of the river, and about two miles above the 

 two projecting bluff points before mentioned. This 

 bank was, no doubt, the occasion of that very strong 

 rippling, or agitation of the stream, which we had 

 observed when turning up the river. There was not 

 less than twelve feet depth of water about the ship, 

 at the lowest of the ebb ; but other parts of the bank 

 were dry. As soon as the ship came aground, I made 

 a signal for the Discovery to anchor. She, as I af- 

 terward understood, had been near ashore on the 

 west side of the bank. As the flood-tide came in, 

 the ship floated off; soon after five o'clock in the af- 

 ternoon, without receiving the least damage, or giving 

 us any trouble ; and, after standing over to the west 

 shore, into deep water, we anchored to wait for the 

 ebb, as the wind was still contrary. 



We weighed again with the ebb, at ten o'clock at 

 night ; and, between four and rive next morning, 

 when the tide was finished, once more cast anchor 

 about two miles below the bluff point, on the west 

 shore, in nineteen fathoms water. A good many of 

 the natives came off, when we were in this station, and 



