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c H^, A P. about the Sound, and hated by all their neighbours, with 

 « — ^ — » whom they were continually at variance. Old Shenawaa, 

 June.' iince his plundering our boats, had never appeared in the har- 

 Monday 25. ^^^^ . ]^-^^^ foiiie of his people fometimes brought us a few 

 fea-otter fkins, which they had obtained either by plun- 

 der or barter ; for I underftood that his country does not 

 produce any of the fea-otter ; but they have abundance 

 of river-otter. Tacklaccimute, Shucklamute, and Wal- 

 laamute, are the countries that afford the fea-otter. This 

 laft-mentioned: place, from every information I have been 

 able to obtain, is lituated conliderably beyond Comptrol- 

 ler's Bay to the Eaftward ; and we have feen none of the 

 inhabitants ; but the Indians that have traded with us, fre- 

 quently-brought fkins which they faid came from that 

 country ; and I always obferved that none of thofe fkins 

 were marked, as is the ulual cuftom when they are in- 

 tended for fale, but made up into cloaks, and worn by 

 the people, to defend them from the inclemency of the 

 weather. 



Sheenawaa (whofe rapacious difpofition has already 

 been noticed), whilft the Nootka wintered in Sutherland's 

 Cove, fent frequent meffages, intimating that he intended 

 to come and cut them off. Thefe meffages, or rather 

 threats, wtre always delivered to an Indian girl that an 

 officer belonging to the Nootka had purchafed on their 

 firft arrival in the Sound. This girl made her efcape from 

 the Nootka towards the latter part of the winter, and pro- 

 bably gave the Indians an account of her weak and de- 

 fencelefs fituation ; for there is hardly a doubt, from the 

 number of men that Sheenawaa had with him at the time 



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