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1778- wood ; but thofe farther inland feemed to be naked rocks, 



May. 



c- V - ^ buried in mow. 



The leak being flopped, and the (heathing made good 

 Sunday 17. ovcr it, at four o'clock in the morning of the 17th, we 

 weighed, and fleered to the North-weRward, with a light 

 breeze at Eafl North Eafl; thinking, if there fhould be any 

 pafTage to the North through this inlet, that it muft be in 

 that direftion. Soon after we were under fail, the natives, 

 in both great and fmall canoes, paid us another vifit, which 

 gave us an additional opportunity of forming a more per- 

 fedl idea of their perfons, drefs, and other particulars, which 

 fliall be afterward dcfcribed. Our vifiters feemed to have no 

 other bufmcfs, but to gratify their curiofity ; for they en- 

 tered into no fort of traffic with us. After we had got over 

 to the North Weft point of the arm in which we had an- 

 chored, we found that the flood-tide came into the inlet, 

 through the f.ime channel by which we had entered. Al- 

 though this circumftance did not make wholly againfl a 

 pafTage, it was, however, nothing in its favour. After pafT- 

 ing the point above mentioned, we met with a good deal of 

 * foul ground, and many funken rocks, even out in the 

 middle of the channel, which is here five or fix leagues 

 wide. At this time the wind failed us, and was fucceedcd 

 by calms and light airs from every direc^tion ; fo 'that we 

 had fome trouble to extricate ourfclves from the threaten- 

 ing danger. At length, about one o'clock, with the alFift- 

 ance of our boats, we got to an anchor, under the Eaftern 

 fliore, in thirteen fathoms water, and about four leagues 

 to the North of our laft flation. In the morning, the wea- 

 ther had been very hazy ; but it afterward cleared up, fo as 

 to give us a diilin(rt: view of all the land round us, particu- 



7 larly 



