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A VOYAGE TO THE 



by compafs, and run at the rate of two knots per h.o\iT, 

 and fall fourteen, feet perpendicular. The flood fet di- 

 redtly from the South, and run nearly at the fame rate as 

 T'hurfdayzo. the ebb. At four o'clock in the morning of the 20th the 

 V Ruffian boat returned with Mr. M'Leod, who informed 



me that the harbour was a very good one, and that there 

 was a fafe pajflage into it on either flde the fmall ifland a£ 

 the entrance^ 



After examining the harbour, Mr. M'Leod landed on 

 a beach juft without the South entrance of it, where the 

 Ruffians had taken up their abode. It ffiould feem that 

 they only continue here during the fummer feafon, as they 

 had nothing more than tents covered with canvas or fkins 

 to live in. He obferved but few fea-otter fkins amongft 

 them, and they were moftly green, and appeared as if 

 recently taken from the animal. The Ruffian party con- 

 fifted of twenty-five men ; they had alfo a number of 

 Indians along with them, who had {kin canoes, and feemed 

 to be on the moft friendly terms with the Ruffians, which 

 inclined me to think they were not natives of this place, 

 but brought here from Kodiac or Oonalafka, for the pur- 

 pofe of hunting ; efpecially as Mr. M'Leod could not per- 

 ceive any Indian habitations near the Ruffian fettiement^ 



The Ruffian chief brought me as a prefent a quantity 

 of fine falmon,. fuffieient to ferve both ffiips for one day j 

 in return for which I gave him fome yams, and direded him 

 how to dxefs them ; and likewife fome beef, pork, and a 

 few bottles of brandy. He made his acknowledgm.ents in 

 the beft manner he was able, and returned on fhore, per- 

 fedly pleafed with his reception^. 



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