22 CAPTAIN COOK'S VOYAGES 



by the distribution of beads and ribbons, with which the 

 Indians were much pleased. 



After a mutual confidence had been thus established, the 

 rest of the English party joined, and a general conversation, 

 though of a singular kind, ensued. Three of the Indians 

 now returned with the captain and his friends to the ship, 

 whom they clothed and entertained. They refused to drink 

 rum or brandy, after tasting them, intimating by signs that 

 it burnt their throats. They were of a middle stature, with 

 broad flat faces, low foreheads, high cheeks, noses inclining 

 to flatness, wide nostrils, small black eyes, large mouths, 

 small, but indifferent teeth, and black, straight hair, 

 falling down over their ears and forehead, which was com- 

 monly smeared with brown and red paint ; and, like all the 

 original natives of America, they were beardless. Their 

 garments were the skins of guanacos and seals, which they 

 wrapped round their shoulders. The women have a small 

 string tied round each ankle, and wear each a flap of skin 

 round the middle. 



Mr. Banks, Dr. Solander, Mr. Buchan, and several other 

 gentlemen, accompanied by servants, went a considerable 

 way into the country, where they had marshy ground, and 

 very cold blasts of wind and snow, to contend with. After 

 much fatigue, they attained a considerable eminence, where 

 they found a variety of plants, which gratified their 

 curiosity and repaid them for their toil. 



It was now nearly eight o'clock in the evening, and Dr. 

 Solander, who knew from experience that extreme cold, 

 when joined with fatigue, occasions a drowsiness that is 

 not easily resisted, entreated his friends to keep in motion, 

 however disagreeable it might be to them ; his words were, 

 !t Whoever sits down, will sleep ; and whoever sleeps, will 

 wake no more." Every one seemed accordingly armed with 

 resolution ; but on a sudden the cold became so intense, as 

 to threaten the most direful effects. It was remarkable, 

 that Dr. Solander himself, who had so forcibly admonished 

 and alarmed his party, should be the first who insisted 

 upon being suffered to repose. In spite of the most earnest 

 entreaties of his friends, he lay down amidst the snow, 

 and it was with great difficulty that they kept him awake. 

 One of the black servants became also weary and faint, 

 and was upon the point of following the Doctor's example. 

 Mr. Buchan was therefore detached with a party to make 

 a fire at the first commodious spot they could meet with. 

 Mr. Banks, with four more, remained with the Doctor and 

 Richmond the black, who, with the utmost difficulty, were 

 induced to come on ; but after walking a few miles farther, 

 they expressed their inability of proceeding. When the black 



