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which bore Wef!: South Weft from the fhip, and about '^ ^^j*^ ^' 



three miles and a half diftant. « * 



1787. 



June. 



Next morning at five o'clock our nev/ vifiters came Monday 25; 

 along-lide in one of their large boats ; the party confifted 

 of about twenty-five men, women, and children. Their 

 chief appeared to be a well-difpofed man, rather low in 

 ftature, with a long beard, and feemed about fixty years 

 of age : he was entirely difabled on one fide, probably by 

 a paralytic ftroke. The old man made me a prefent of a 

 good fkin, but had little to fell except a few falmon, which 

 we bought ot him. I made the chief, vi^hofe name I un- 

 derftood was Taatucktellingnuke, a prefent, and one to 

 each of thofe who feemed to be of confequence ; I alfo 

 diflributed fome trinkets among the women and children. 



Taatucktellingnuke gave me to underftand that the 

 country he came from was called Cheeneecock, and fitu- 

 ated in the South Weft part of the Sound. Our new 

 friends ftaid along-fide during the whole day, and went 

 oa fhore in the evening, perfectly well fatisfied^ L found 

 the whole of this party very friendly and well difpofed j: 

 and indeed moft of thofe who had vifited us were fo ; 

 particularly the natives belonging to Tacklaccimute, who 

 I am inclined to think inhabit Comptroller's Bay, and the 

 Shucklamute people, who take up their abode in the 

 North fide of Montag-ue Ifland. 



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I LEARNED from my late vifiters that the country where 

 Sheenawaa and his tribe take up their refidence, is called 

 Taaticklagmute j that they were the moft powerful tribe 



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