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Were I to affix a name to the people of Nootka, as a '778- 

 diftirKft nation, I would call them Wakafoians ; from the word 1, --,- ! _« 

 wakafji which was very frequently in their mouths. It 

 feemed to exprefs applaufe, approbation, and friendfliip. 

 For when they appeared to be fatisfied, or well pleafed witli 

 any thing they faw, or any incident that happened, they 

 would, with one voice, call out nvaka/Ij ! ivaka/Jj I I fhall 

 take my leave of them, with remarking, that, differing fo 

 elTentially as they certainly do, in their perfons, their cuftoms, 

 and language, from the inhabitants of the iflands in the Pa- 

 cific Ocean, we cannot fuppofe their refpedive progenitors 

 to have been united in the fame tribe, or to have had any 

 intimate connection, when they emigrated from their ori- 

 ginal fettlemcnts, into the places where we now find their 

 defcendants. 



My account of the tranfa(5lions in Nootka Sound would 

 be imperfe(5l, without adding the aftronomical and nautical 

 oblervations made by us, while thefliips were in that flation. 



Latitude, 

 f Sun - - 49* 36' 1", is'" 

 The latitude of the ob- gouth 49° 36' 8", 36'" 



fervatoryby - [ ^^^^^ J^onh 49^ 36' 10", 30'" 



The mean of thefe means - 49" 36' 6", 47"'NortIi. 

 Longitude. 

 Twenty fets taken on the] 



The longi- 

 tude, by 

 lunar ob- 

 fervations 



wcnty fets taken on the? 

 aid and 23d of March r ' ^ 



^ Ninety-three taken at the? , 



obfervatory - - 3 



Twenty-four taken on the? 



ift, 2d, and cjd of MavS^'' 7 i^ > 7 



The mean of thefe means - 233* 17' 14", o'"Eaft. 

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