45$ cook's voyage to oct. 



we saw the island of Oonalasbka, bearing S. E. But 

 as this was to us a new point of view, and the land 

 was obscured by a thick haze, we were not sure of 

 our situation till noon, when the observed latitude 

 determined it. As all the harbours were alike to me, 

 provided they were equally safe and convenient, I 

 hauled into a bay that lies ten miles to the westward 

 of Samganoodha, known by the name of Egoochshac ; 

 but we found very deep water ; so that we were glad 

 to get out again. The natives, many of whom lived 

 here, visited us at different times, bringing with 

 them dried salmon and other fish, which they ex- 

 changed with the seamen for tobacco. But a few 

 days before, every ounce of tobacco that was in the 

 ship had been distributed among them ; and the 

 quantity was not half sufficient to answer their de- 

 mands. Notwithstanding this, so improvident a 

 creature is an English sailor, that they were as pro- 

 fuse in making their bargains as if we had now ar- 

 rived at a port in Virginia ; by which means, in less 

 than eight-and-forty hours, the value of this article 

 of barter was lowered above a thousand per cent. 



At one o'clock in the afternoon of the 3d, we an- 

 chored in Samganoodha Harbour ; and the next 

 morning the carpenters of both ships were set to 

 work to rip off the sheathing of and under the wale, 

 on the starboard side abaft. Many of the seams were 

 found quite open, so that it was no wonder that so 

 much water had found its way into the ship. While 

 we lay here, we cleared the fish and spirit rooms, 

 and the after-hold ; disposing things in such a man- 

 ner that, in case we should happen to have any more 

 leaks of the same nature, the water might find its 

 way to the pumps. And besides this work, and com- 

 pleting our water, we cleared the fore-hold to the 

 very bottom, and took in a quantity of ballast. 



The vegetables which we had met with, when we 

 were here before, were now mostly in a state of de- 



