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the Straits of Juan de Fuca, seems to have had a holy horror of hind, and 

 sedulously kept at such a distance that he made no discoveries whatever. 

 Passing Destruction Island, he noticed a canoe or two paddling near the 

 shore, and remarks : "It was a fact not less singular than worthy of obser- 

 vation, that on the whole extensive coast of New Albion, and more particu- 

 larly in the vicinity of those fertile and delightful shores we had lately 

 passed, we had not, excepting to the southward of Cape Orford and at this 

 jilace, seen any inhabitants, or met with any circumstances that, in the most 

 distant manner, indicated a probability of the country being inhabited." 

 Of the Klasset, or Makah, he says : " The few natives who came off 

 resembled, in most respects, the jieople of Nootka. Their persons, gar- 

 ments, and beha^^or, are very similar; some difference was observed in 

 their ornaments, particularly in those worn at the nose ; for, instead of the 

 crescent, generally adopted by the inhabitants of Nootka, these wore straight 

 pieces of bone. Their canoes, arms, and implements, were exactly the 

 same. They spoke the same language, but did not approach us with the 

 familiarity observed by those people on visiting the Resolution and Dis- 

 covery, which may probably be owing to their having become more familiar 

 with strangers." The village, he observes, which is situated about two 

 miles within the cape, had the appearance of being extensive and populous. 

 The manner of the Indians was very civil, orderly, and friendl}'. They 

 requested permission before entering his ship, and, when receiving some 

 presents, " politely and earnestly solicited " him to stop at their village. 



His notices of the Klallam are not much more extended, for he had 

 but little intercourse with them. Of those at New Dungeness, he says : 

 " The appearance of the huts we now saw indicated the residence of the 

 natives in them to be of a temporary nature only, as we could perceive 

 with our glasses that they differed very materially from the habitations of any 

 of the American Indians we had before seen, being composed of nothing- 

 more than a few mats thrown over cross-sticks ; whereas those we had passed 

 the preceding day in two or three small villages to the eastward of Classet 

 were built exactly after the fashion of the houses erected at Nootka. The 

 iidiabitants seemed to view us with the utmost indifference and unconcern; 

 they continued to fish before their luits as i-egardless of our being present 



