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njolcano reached, moved fometimes in a direcftion contrary 

 to what it did at lea, even when it blew a frefli gale. 



In the afternoon, having three hours calm, our people 

 caught upward of a hundred halibuts, fome of which 

 weighed a hundred pounds, and none lefs than twenty pounds. 

 This was a very feafonable refrefliraent to us. In the height 

 of our fifliing, which was in thirty-five fathoms water, and 

 three or four miles from the fhore, a fmall canoe, conducfl- 

 ed by one man, came to us from the large ifland. On ap- 

 proaching the fliip, he took off his cap, and bowed, as the 

 other had done, who vifited the Difcovery the preceding 

 day. It was evident, that the Ruffians muft have a commu- 

 nication and traffic with thefe people ; not only from their 

 acquired politenels, but from the note before mentioned. 

 But we had now a frefh proof of it ; for our prefent vifiter 

 wore a pair of green cloth breeches, and a jacket of black 

 cloth, or fluff, under the gut-fliirt or frock of his own coun- 

 try. He had nothing to barter, except a grey fox fkin, and 

 fome fifhing implements or harpoons ; the heads of the fhafts 

 of which, for the length of a foot, or more, were neatly made 

 of bone, as thick as a walking-cane, and carved. He had 

 with him a bladder, full of fomething, which we fuppofcd 

 to be oil ; for he opened it, took a mouthful, and then faften- 

 ed it again. 



His canoe was of the fame make with thofe we had fcen 

 before ; but rather fmaller. He ufed the double-bladed 

 paddle, as did alfo thofe who had vifued the Difcovery. In 

 his fize and features, he exacHily refembled thofe we faw in 

 Prince William's Sound, and in the Great River; but he was 

 quite free from paint of any kind ; and had the perforation 

 of his lip made in an oblique direcflion, without any orna- 



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