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making against us, we anchored about three leagues 

 from our last station, with the passage bearing N. W. 



At daybreak the next morning, we weighed with 

 a light breeze at S., which carried us up the passage, 

 when it was succeeded by variable light airs from all 

 directions ; but as there ran a rapid tide in our 

 favour, the Resolution got through before the ebb 

 made. The Discovery was not so fortunate : she 

 was carried back, got into the race, and had some 

 trouble to get clear of it. As soon as we were 

 through, the land on one side was found to trend W. 

 and S. W., and that on the other side to trend N. 

 This gave us great reason to hope that the continent 

 had there taken a new direction, which was much 

 in our favour. Being in want of water, and per- 

 ceiving that we ran some risk of driving about in a 

 rapid tide, without wind to govern the ship, I stood 

 for a harbour lying on the south side of the passage ; 

 but we were very soon driven past it ; and to prevent 

 being forced back through the passage, came to an 

 anchor in twenty-eight fathoms water, pretty near the 

 the southern shore, out of the reach of the strong 

 tide ; and yet, even here, we found it run full five 

 knots and a half in the hour. 



While we lay here, several of the natives came off 

 to us, each in a canoe, and bartered a few fishing 

 implements for tobacco. One of them, a young man, 

 overset his canoe, while along-side one of our boats. 

 Our people caught hold of him ; but the canoe went 

 adrift, and being picked up by another, was carried 

 ashore. The youth, by this accident, was obliged 

 to come into the ship, and he went down into my 

 cabin upon the first invitation, without expressing 

 the least reluctance or uneasiness. His dress was an 

 upper garment like a shirt, made of the large gut of 

 some sea-animal, probably the whale, and an under 

 garment of the same shape, made of the skins of 

 birds dressed with the feathers on, and neatly sewed 

 together, the feathered side being worn next his 



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