17/S* THE PACIFIC OCEAN. SS3 



country. He had nothing to barter, except a grey 

 fox skin, and some fishing implements or har- 

 poons, the heads of the shafts of which, for the 

 length of a foot or more, were neatly made of bone, 

 as thick as a walking cane, and carved. He had with 

 him a bladder full of something, which we supposed 

 to be oil, for he opened it, took a mouthful, and then 

 fastened it again. 



His canoe was of the same make with those we 

 had seen before, but rather smaller. He used the 

 double-bladed paddle, as did also those who had 

 visited the Discovery. In his size and features, he 

 exactly resembled those we saw in Prince Wil- 

 liam's Sound, and in the Great River ; but he was 

 quite free from paint of any kind, and had the per- 

 foration of his lip made in an oblique direction, 

 without any ornament in it. He did not seem to 

 understand any of the words commonly used by 

 our visitors in the sound, when repeated to him. 

 But perhaps our faulty pronunciation, rather than 

 his ignorance of the dialect, may be inferred from 

 this. 



The weather was cloudy and hazy, with now and 

 then sunshine, till the afternoon of the 22d, when 

 the wind came round to the S. E., and, as usual, 

 brought thick rainy weather. Before the fog came 

 on, no part of the main land was in sight, except the 

 volcano, and another mountain close by it. I con- 

 tinued to steer W. till seven in the evening, when, 

 being apprehensive of falling in with the land in 

 thick weather, we hauled the wind to the southward, 

 till two o'clock next morning, and then bore away 

 again W. We made but little progress, having the 

 wind variable and but little of it, till at last it fixed 

 in the western board, and at five in the afternoon, 

 having a gleam of sunshine, we saw land bearing N. 

 59 W., appearing in hillocks like islands. 



At six in the morning of the 24th, we got a sight 

 of the continent, and at nine it was seen extending; 



