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CAPE DARBY. SLE DG E ys LAN D: 
another, feemingly the chief, almoft blind: the third, a girl: the laft, the wife. 
She made ufe of Captain Kine to a&t as a charm to reftore her blind hufband to 
his fight *. He was firft directed to hold his breath ; then to breathe on, and af- 
terwards to {pit on his eyes. We are not without fimilar fuperftitions. The Ro- 
mans + applied the fame remedy to difeafes of the fame part: but I doubt whether 
they, or our polifhed nation, ever exprefled the fame feelings as this poor woman 
did. She related her ftory in the moft pathetic manner ; fhe prefled the hands 
of the Captain to the breaft of her hufband, while fhe was relating the calamitous 
hiftory of her family ; pointed fometimes to the hufband, fometimes to the crip- 
ple, and fometimes to the poor child. Unable to contain any longer, fhe burft 
into tears and lamentation. She was followed by the reft of her kindred in an 
unifon, which, I truft, filled the eyes of the civilized beholders, as their relation 
has mine. 
From Cape Darly the land trends to the weft, and ends in Point Rodney ; low 
land, with high land far beyond, taking a northerly dire€&tion inland. Off this 
point, in Jat. 64. 30, is Sledge ifland, fo called from a fledge being found on it, 
refembling thofe which the Ruffians ufe in Kamt/chatka to carry goods over the 
{now. It was ten feet long, twenty inches broad, with a rail on each fide, and 
fhod with bone; all neatly put together, in fome parts with wooden pins, but 
moftly with thongs of whalebone: a proof of the ingenuity of the natives. Whe- 
ther it was to be drawn with dogs or rein-deer, does not appear ; for the ifland was 
deferted, and only the remains of a few jourts to be feen. In lat. 64. 55, long. 
192, is Kinc’s ifland, named in honor of the able and worthy continuator of 
the voyage. The continent oppofite to it bends towards the eaft, and forms a 
fhallow bay; then fuddenly runs far into the fea, and makes the moft weftern 
extremity yet known, and probably the moft weftern of all. On it were feveral 
huts; and ftages of bone, fuch as had been obferved in the T/chut/Ri country. 
This cape forms one fide of Berino’s ftreights, and lies nearly oppofite to Ea/f? 
Cape, on the Afatic fhore, at the {mall diftance of only thirty-nine miles. This 
lies in lat. 65. 46; is named Cape Prince of Wales ; is low land, and the heights, 
as ufual, appeared beyond; among which is a remarkable peaked hill. It would 
be unjuft to the memory of paft navigators, not to fay, that there is the greateft 
probability that either this cape, or part of the continent adjacent to it, was dif- 
covered, in 1730, by Michael Gwofdew, a land furveyor attendant on the Coffack, 
* See Voyage, ii. 481. + Mulieris falivam quoque jejunz potentem dijudicant oculis 
esyentatis—Plin. Hift. Nat. lib. xxviii. Ce 7. 
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