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US to anchor in thirteen fathoms, before we had got fo far into 

 the bay as I intended ; but we thought ourfelves fortunate v 

 that we had already fufficiently fecured ourfelves at this 

 hour; for the night was exceedingly ftormy. 



The weather, bad as it was, did not hinder three of tlie 

 natives from paying us a vifit. They came off in two ca- 

 noes ; two men in one, arid one in the other ; being the 

 number each could carry. For they were built and con- 

 flru(5led in the fame manner with thofe of the Efquimaux ; 

 only, in the one were two holes for two men to fit in ; and 

 in the other but one. Each of thefe men had a flick, about 

 three feet long, with the large feathers or wing of birds 

 tied to it. Thefe they frequently held up to us ; with a 

 view, as we gueffed, toexprefs their pacific difpofition*. 



The treatment thefe men met with, induced many more Thurfcia}'i4. 

 to vifit us, between one and two the next morning, in both 

 great and fmall canoes. Some ventured on board the fhip ; 

 but not till fome of our people had flepped into their boats. 

 Amongfl thofc who came on board, was a good-looking 

 middle-aged man, vi^hom we afterward found to be the 

 Chief. He was clothed in a drefs made of the fea-otter's 

 ikin ; and had on his head fuch a cap as is worn by the 

 people of King George's Sound, ornamented with fky-blue 

 glafs beads, about the fize of a large pea. He feemed to fet 

 a much higher value upon thefe, than upon our white glafs 

 beads. Any fort of beads, however, appeared to be in high 

 eftimation with thefe people ; and they readily gave what- 

 ever they had in exchange for them ; even their fine fea- 



* Exaftly correfponding to this, was the manner of receiving Beering's people, at 

 the Schumagin Iflands, on this coaft, in i''4.i. Muller's words are — " On fait cc 

 ♦« que c'eR- que le Calumet, que les Americains feptentrionaux prefentent en figne de 

 " paix. Ceux-ci en tenoient de pareiis en main. C'etoint des batons avec aUe: de 

 *' faucon attachees au boul." Decouvertes, p. 268. 



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