^4^ Be ff ember 1749. 



klUaluck \ fieaven, taktiick^ or nahtigakJJje j 

 the ^inn^ Jhikonak^ or fakaknuk -, the moon, 

 takock ; an egg, manneguk ; the boat, ka* 

 gack'y the oar, pacotick-, the knife, JJmvie % 

 a dog, mekke^ or timilok ; the bow, petik- 

 Jick ; an arrow, /'^z//? ; the head, ntakock i 

 the ear, ^c/?/« j the eye, kilUky or y^//^ j the 

 hair, nutjhad -, a tooth, ukak -, the foot, 

 itikat. Some think thai they are nearly 

 the fame nation with the GreenlandefSy or 

 Skralingers i and pretend that there is a 

 great affinity in the language *. 



Plumb-trees of difFerentforts, brought 

 over from France^ fucceed very well here. 

 The prefent year they did not begin t6 

 flower till this month. Some of them 

 looked very well ; and I am told the win* 

 ter does not hurt them. 



September the nth. The marquis^;? 

 la Galiffonniere is one of the three noble- 

 men, who, above all others, have gained 

 high efteem with the French admiralty in 

 the lafi: war. They are the marquifies de 

 la Galijfonnicrey de la Jonquiere, and de I'E^ 



* The above account of the E/c/uimanx may becompared 

 with Henry Ellis^s Jcc:unt of a Foyoge to Hud/oil's Bay, by 

 th: Dobbi Ga ley and California, &c. and The Account of a 

 Voyage Jor the Dfco'very of a North Wiji Pafage by Hudjon'i 

 Sti,ights, by the Clerk of the CaUfornia. 7aoo Foh- Stjo. 

 And iaftly, with CraNt%'i Hiforj of Greenland. T%vo Vols. 

 %vo. F. 



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