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A VOYAGE TO 



'773- fuch trifles as we had to give them. Mofl; of it was fplit 

 s__ -'-' > ready for drying ; and feveral hundred weight of it was pro- 

 CHied for the two Ihips. 



In the afternoon, the mountains, for the firft time lince 

 our entering the river, were clear of clouds ; and we difco- 

 vered a volcano in one of thofe on the Welt fide. It is in the 

 latitude of 60° 23'; and is the iirfi high nunintain to the 

 North of Mount St. Auguftine. The volcano is on that fide 

 of it that is next the river, and not tar from the fummit. It 

 did not now make any ftriking appear i.ce, emitting only a 

 white fmoke, but no fire. 



The wind remaining Southerly, we continued to tide it 

 Fridays. down the river; and, on the 5th, in the morning, coming 

 to the place where we had loft our kedge-anchor, made an 

 attempt to recover it, but without fuccefs. Before we left 

 this place, fix canoes came off from the Eaft fliore; fome 

 conducffed by one, and others by two men. They remained 

 at a little diftance from the fhips, viewing tliem, with a 

 kind of filent furprizc, at leaft half an liour, without ex- 

 changing a fmgle word with us, or with one another. At 

 length, they took courage, and came along fide; began to 

 barter with our people; and did nt't ie.ive us lill they had 

 parted with every thing they brought wirh them, confining 

 of a few fkins and fome falmon. And heie it may not be 

 improper to remark, that all the people we had met witl> in 

 this river, Iccmed, by every ftrikinsi; inftauce of rcfem- 

 blance, to he of the lame nadon with thofe wlio inhabit 

 Prince V\ illiam's Sound, but difFeiing ellentially from thofe 

 of Nootka, or King George's Sound, both in their perfons 

 and language. The language of thefe is rather more gut- 

 tural ; 



