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Manner of btdlding the Hcu/es in Nootha Sound. — hifide 

 of them defer ibed. — Furniture ajid Ute?ifls. — TVooden 

 Images. — Efnployments of the Men. — Of the IF omen. — 

 Fcod.^ animal and vegetable. — Manner of preparing it, 

 — Weapons. — Manufa&ures a?id mechanic Arts.—^ 

 Carving and Painting. — Canoes. — Implements for ffjing 

 and hunting. — Iron "Tools. — Manner of procuring that 

 Metal. — Remarks on their Language .f and a Specime?t 

 of it. — Afli'onomical and nautical Obfervations made in 

 Nootha Sound. 



TH E two towns or villages, mentioned in the courfe 1775. 

 of my Journal, feem to be the only inhabited parts ^^P"''^ 

 of the Sound. The number of inhabitants in both might 

 be pretty exa6tly computed from the canoes that were about 

 the fliips the fecond day after our arrival. They amounted 

 to about a hundred ; which, at a very moderate allowance, 

 muft, upon an average, have held five perfons each. But 

 as there were fcarcely any women, very old men, children, 

 or youths amongft them at that time, I think it will rather 

 be rating the number of the inhabitants of the two towns 

 too low, if we fuppofe they could be lefs than four times the 

 number of our vifiters; that is, two thoufand in the whole. 



The village at the entrance of the Sound flands on the 



fide of a rifing ground, which has a pretty ftecp afcent 



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