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than the sight of the sea-lions and sea-bears on 

 St. George's island. * 



As Kadii, during the voyage, never neglected 

 carefully to collect pieces of iron, broken glass, 

 and every thing overlooked by us, which might be 

 valuable to his countrymen, he looked on the 

 shore at Oonalashka chiefly for stones, which 

 might serve for whet-stones. We only once saw 

 this mild man angry ; it was when, in the course 

 of our voyage, he looked to no purpose for these 

 stones in the place in the ship where he had put 

 them, and his complaint met with little attention j 

 his sense of justice was wounded. 



Kadu, in his poverty, was generous and grateful. 

 He served such of us as made him presents j and 

 made use of the opportunity at Owhyee, by the 

 barter which he judiciously made with the little 

 articles which we had given him, to make presents 

 to us and the sailors who had obliged him, such as 

 might be agreeable to each. He retained nothing 

 for himself, except that with which he intended one 

 day to enrich or to please his countrymen : thus he 

 had left every thing he possessed to his friends at 

 Radack ; all but one treasure, a necklace, which 



* When, after returning on board from the island of St. 

 George, we conversed about the sea-lions, in humourously imi- 

 tating the voice and gait of which Kada amused himself and us, 

 he was asked, with apparent seriousness, whether he had looked 

 at the nests and eggs, under the rocks on the sea shore. How- 

 ever little versed he might be in the Natui'al History of Mammalia, 

 the question surprised him, and he soon discovered that it was 

 a joke, which made him laugh heartily. 



