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We now parted from the Neva and proceeded south- 

 west, while the Neva detcrmuied to come to anchor in 

 Karakakua Bav, where the celebrated Cook was killed. 

 The natives of the Sandwich isles are more industrious than 

 those of the Marquesas. Their canoes are exceedingly 

 neat, and fully secured from being overset, bv outriggers 

 applied to them. The sea was very rough at the time when 

 they visited us ; but they suffered no damage. The cloth 

 which they make of the bark of the paper-mulberry is 

 very beautiful, and of bright colours. The broad girdle 

 worn by the woman was of a lively red colour. The men 

 are smaller than those of the Marquesas, and seem to be 

 artful and deceitful people. In most of them the incisor 

 teeth are wanting. These they are very careful to knock 

 out. The women are larger and more elegantly made than 

 those of the Marquesas. Both sexes have a darker colour 

 than the natives of the Marquesas, though the climate in 

 the latter is nmch warmer. Alany of them also are tatooed, 

 but not so strongly : some of them had several figures on 

 their legs ; and one had the figure of a musket and'bayonet 

 on the arm. This is nearly the whole of th.e intercourse 

 we had with them. When we return from Kodjak we shall 

 pay them another visit. 



To be sure of the trade wind we again approached the 

 equator, and proceeded west on the parallel of 1 T*. The 

 weather was fine, and the wind as favourable as possible ; 

 so that we advanced more than two degrees every day. As 

 we turned towards the north we began^to be sensible of the 

 effects of custom ; the temperature'of 18° of Reaumur was 

 somewhat disagreeable to us. I asked Joseph whether it 

 was ever so cold in Nukahivah. " Jaifwls, jamais," re- 

 plied he. In the latitude of 3(i° north, and longitude 101° 

 wcit from Greenwich, we proceedetl some degrees towards 

 the west, but saw nothing of the Silver islands. 



On the evening of .July 13 we Saw the high mountains 

 of Kanifchatka. ""On the 15th we entered the harbour of 

 St. Peter and St. Paul, and came to anchor. When \vc 

 saw the fine prospect which here presented itself, wt; coijld 

 not believe our o^\■n eyes : there was still a little snow to be 

 seen on the summits of the highest mountains, but the 

 lower ones were covered with beautiful verdure; and the 

 smell of the birch-trees was jxrceived on board the ship. 

 'I"he only scorbutic patient in the ship was sent on tihore, 

 where he soon recovered. We were extremely fortunate, 

 wlien it is considered that wc were five months al sea, and 

 for the last four months had lived entirely on salted provi- 

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