2J4 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



and uhich is their only garment. They had 

 fixed the price of their condefcenfion at a nail, 

 or fome other article of equal value, and they 

 infifted that every perfon who wifhcd to gratify 

 his curiofity Ihould pay beforehand. 



I found on my arrival on board, a chief who 

 had dined at the gun-room table. He had come 

 in a canoe w ith his wife, whom he would not 

 fliffcr to afcend the fhip's fide, not with ftand- 

 in"" the reiterated entreaties that had been 

 made him for that purpofe. 



On the 2d, we went on a fhooting party in 

 the great woods which lay to the fouth-eaft, 

 and there killed a prodigious number of birds. 

 We flopped at a fmall hamlet, where we faw 

 over two graves fome planks rudely carved ; 

 tiic inhabitants informed us that it was forbidden 

 to approach them ^ but they very readily con- 

 fenrcd to fell us for fome bits of cloth, a human 

 fcull fufpended over another grave, the os coron- 

 aiis oi wliich was fplit on the left fide. They 

 gavcr.sto iinderfiand that this warrior had been 

 killed in a battle by a blow of a club. 



Next day, the ;^dy we fef out to the number 

 of eight, early in the morning, having formed 

 an intention of crofling the mountains, to de- 

 fccnd afterwards inrotiic hrge valley in which 

 we had in one of our rxcurfions difcovcrcd at a 

 ('.irt^ince a crcat many cultivated foots of 



ground. 



