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CHAP. IX. 



Behaviour of the Natives^ the Tfchutjki, on feeing the Ships^ 

 — Interview with fome of them. — 'Their JVeapons. — 

 Perfons. — Ornamenis. — Clothiiig. — Wifiter and Sum- 

 mer Habitations. — The Ships crofs the Strait^ to the 

 Ccafl of A7nerica. — Progrefs Northward. — Cape Mul*- 

 grave, — Appearance of Fields of Ice. — Situation of Icy 

 Cape. — The Sea blocked up ivith Ice. — Sea-horfes killedy 

 and ufed as Provifions. — Thefe Animals defcribed. — Di~ 

 menjions of one of the7n. — Cape Lifburm. — Fruitlcfs At- 

 tempts to get through the Ice^ at a Diftance from the 

 Coafl. — Obfervations on the Formation of this Ice — 

 Jlrrival on the Coajl of Afa. — Cape North. — The Pro- 

 fecution of the Voyage deferred to the e?ifuing Tear. 



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S wc were {landing into this bay, we perceived on the 1778. 

 North fliore a village, and fome people, whom the .... ," f""_, 

 fight of the fliips feemed to have thrown into confufion, or Monday 10. 

 fear. We could plainly fee perfons running up the coun- 

 try with burdens upon their backs. At thefe habitations I 

 propofed to land; and, accordingly, went with three armed 

 boats, accompanied by fome of the officers. About thirty 

 or forty men, each armed with a fpontoon, a bow, and ar- 

 rows, flood drawn up on a rifmg ground clofe by the village. 

 As we drew near, three of them came down toward the fliore, 

 and were fo polite as to take off their caps, and to make 

 us low bows. We returned the civility ; but this did not 



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