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»778. beincr done, we anchored in nineteen fathoms, under the 



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fame fliore as before. The North Weft pan of ir, forming 

 a bluff point, bore North, 20° Eaft, two leagues diflarit-, a 

 point on the other fl:iore oppofite to it, and nearly of the 

 fanfie height, bore North, 36' Weft ; our latitude, by obfer- 

 vacion, 60° 37'. 



About noon, two canoes, with a man in each, came off 

 to the fliip, from near the place where wc had icen the 

 fmoke the preceding day. They laboured very hard in pad- 

 dling acrofs the ftrong tide ; and hefitated a litile before 

 they would come quite clofe ; but upon figns being made 

 to them, they approached. One of them talked a great deal 

 to no purpofe ; for we did not underftand a word he faid. 

 He kept pointing to the fliore, which we interpreted to be 

 an invitarion to go (hither. ! hey accepted a few trifles from 

 nie, which I conveyed to them from the quarter-gallery. 

 Thele men, in every refpecft, refembled the people we had 

 met with in Prince William's Sound as to their perfons and 

 drefs. Their canoes were alfo of the fame conftrucTt ion. One 

 of our vifiters had his face painted jet black, and fecmed to 

 have no beard ; but the other, who was more elderly, had 

 no paint, and a confiderable beard with a viliige much like 

 the common fort of the Prince William's people. There was 

 alfo fmoke fcen upon the flat Wellern lliore this day, from 

 whence we may infer, that thele lower fpots, and iflands, are 

 the only inhabited places. 



When the flood made we weighed, and then the canoes 

 left us. I flood over to the Weftern fliore, with a frefh gale at 

 North North Eaft, and fetched under the point above men- 

 tioned. This, with the other on the oppofite fliore, con- 

 uaded the channel to the breadth of four leagues. Through 



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