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plunder. The first thing they met with was the rudder 

 of one of the boats, which they threw overboard to those 

 of their party who had remained in their canoes. Before 

 they had time to find another object that pleased their 

 fancy, the crew were alarmed, and began to come on deck 

 armed with cutlasses. On seeing this, the whole company 

 of plunderers sneaked off in their canoes with as much 

 deliberation and indifference as if they had done nothing 

 amiss ; and they were observed describing to those who 

 had not been on board how much longer the knives of the 

 ship's crew were than their own. 



" Just as we were going to weigh the anchor, to proceed 

 farther up the bay, it began to blow and to rain as hard 

 as before ; so that we were obliged to veer away the cable 

 again and lay fast. Toward the evening, finding that the 

 gale did not moderate, and that it might be some time 

 before an opportunity offered to get higher up, I came to 

 a resolution to heel the ship where we were. In heaving 

 the anchor out of the boat, one of the seamen, either through 

 ignorance or carelessness, or both, was carried overboard 

 by the buoy-rope, and followed the anchor to the bottom. 

 It is remarkable, that in this very critical situation, he had 

 presence of mind to disengage himself, and come up to the 

 surface of the water, where he was taken up, with one of 

 his legs fractured in a dangerous manner. 



" The leak being stopped, which was found to be in the 

 seams, at four o'clock in the morning of the 17th we 

 weighed, and steered to the north-westward with a light 

 breeze at east north-east, thinking, if there should be any 

 passage to the north through this inlet, that it must be in 

 that direction. We were now upward of 520 leagues to the 

 westward of any part of Hudson's Bay. 



" Next morning, at three o'clock, we weighed, and, with a 

 gentle breeze at north, proceeded to the southward down 

 the inlet, and met with the same broken ground as on the 

 preceding day. However, we soon extricated ourselves 

 from it. Next evening we were again in the open sea, and 

 found the coast trending west by south, as far as the eye 

 could reach. 



" To the inlet which we had now left I gave the name of 

 Prince William's Sound. 



" The natives, who came to make us several visits while 

 we were in the Sound, were generally not above the common 

 height, though many of them were under it. They were 

 square, or strong chested ; and the most disproportioned 

 part of their body seemed to be their heads, which were 

 very large, with thick short necks, and large, broad, or 

 spreading faces, which, upon the whole, were flat. Their 



