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A VOYAGE TO 



»778' intentions. This frock they conveyed into the fliip, in re- 

 ^^' • turn for fome trifles which I gave them. I could obferve no 

 difTcrence between the perfons, drefs, ornaments, and boats 

 of thcfe people, and thofe of Prince William's Sound, ex- 

 cept that the fniall canoes were rather of a lefs fize, and 

 carried only one man. We procured from them fome of 

 their fur drefl^es, made of the fkins of fea-otters, martins, 

 hares, and other animals ; a few of their darts ; and a 

 fmall fupply of falmon and halibut. In exchange for 

 thefe they took old clothes, beads, and pieces of iron. We 

 found that they were in pofTeflion of large iron knives, 

 and of fky-bluc glafs beads, fuch as we had found amongfl 

 the natives of Prince William's Sound. Thefe latter they 

 feemed to value much, and confequently thofe which we 

 now gave them. But their inclination led them, efpecially, 

 to afk for large pieces of iron ; which metal, if I was not 

 much miftaken, they called by the name of goone; though, 

 like their neighbours in Prince William's Sound, they feem- 

 ed to have many fignifications to one word. They evident- 

 ly fpoke the fame language ; as the words keeta, nacma^ 

 comka, and a few others of the moft common we heard in 

 that Sound, were alfo frequently ufcd by this new tribe. 

 After fpending about two hours between the one fhip and 

 the other, they all retired to the Weftern fhore 



At nine o'clock, we came to an anchor, in fixtcen fathoms 

 water, about two leagues from the Weft fhore, and found 

 the ebb already begun. At its greateft ftrength, it ran only 

 three knots in the hour, and fell, upon a perpendicular, af- 

 ter we had anchored, twenty-one feet. The weather was 

 mifty, with drizling rain, and clear, by turns. At the clear 

 intervals, we faw an opening betwccji the moimtains on the 

 liaflern fliorc, bearing Eaft from the ftation of the (hips, 



with 



