T H E P A C I F I C O C E A N, ^^^ 



1777- 



CHAP. VIII. 



Mr. Anckrfofis Remarks 07i the Cnuntry 7iear ^^terz 

 Charlotte's Sound. — The SoiL — Climate. — Weather, — • 

 ■ Winds. — Trees, — Pla^its. — Birds. — Fip^ — Other Ani^ 

 mals, — Of the Irihabitants. — Defcription of their Per- 

 fons. — Their Drefs. — Orrinments. — Habitations. — Boats, 

 — Food a7id Cookery. — Arts. — Weap07ts. — Cruelty to 

 Prifoners, — Various Cuflonis. — Speci?nei7 of their La?2-' 

 guage. 



THE land every wliere about Queen Charlotte's Sound ./^-^, 

 is uncommonly mountainous, rifnig immediately from .^^^'"'^'"■^'^ 

 the fea into large hills with blunted tops. At confiderable 

 dillances are valleys, or rather impreilions on. the fides of 

 the hills, which are not deepi each terminating toward the 

 fea in a fmall cove, with a pebbly or fandy beach; behind 

 which are fmall fiats, where the natives generally build 

 their huts, at the fame time hauling their canoes upon the 

 beaclies.' This fituation is the more convenient, as in every 

 cove a brook of very fine water (in which are fome fmall 

 trout) empties itfelf into the fea. 



The bafes of thefe mountains, at leaft toward the fhore, 

 are conflituted of a brittle, yellowilh fand-ftone, which ac- 

 quires a bluifli call:, where the fea waflies it. It runs, at 

 fome places, in horizontal, and, at other places, in oblique 

 fraia; being frequently divided, at fmall diilances, by thin 

 •Vol. L U veins 



