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^ '778. At day-break, on the i6th, nine men, each in his canoe, 



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paid us a vifit. Thcv approached the fliip with fome cau- 

 tion ; and evidently came with no other view than to gra- 

 tify their curiofity. They drew up abreaft of each other, 

 tinder our flern, and gave us a fong ; while one of their 

 number beat upon a kind of drum, and another made a 

 thoufand antic motions with his hands and body. There 

 was, however, nothing favage, either in the fong, or in the 

 geftures that accompanied it. None of us could perceive 

 any difference between thefe people, either as to their fize- 

 or features, and thofe whom we had met with on every 

 other part of the coaft, King George's Sound excepted. Their 

 clothing, which confided principally of deer-fkins, was made 

 after the fame fafhion ; and they obfcrved the cuftom of 

 boring their under- lips, and fixing ornjiments to them. 



The dwellings of thefe people were feated clofe to the- 

 beach. They confift fimply of a floping roof, without any. 

 fide-walls, compofed of logs, and covered with grafs ami 

 earth. The floor is alfo laid with logs ; the entrance is at 

 one end ; the fire-place jull within it; and a fmall hole is- 

 made near the door to lee out the fmoke. 



After breakfaft, a party of men were fcnt to the peninfuU 

 for brooms and fprucc. At the fame time, half the re- 

 mainder of the people in each fliip had leave to go and 

 pick berries. Thefe returned on board at noon, when the 

 other half went on the fame errand. The berries to be got 

 here were wild currant-berries, hurtle-berries, partridge- 

 berries, and heath-berries. I alfo went alhore myfelf, 

 and walked over part of the peninfula. In feveral places 

 there was very good grafs ; and I hardly faw a fpot, on 

 which fome vegetable was not growing. The low land 



which 



