2^0 ^AVOYAGETOTHE 



c H^A P. fej^ts, left the rhip and went on jdiore, where they re- 



« ^—^ mained a fhort time, and then returned with a few good 



Auguii. dry fea-otter fkins. I took notice that thefe Indians were 

 Mon ay ^, ^^^ ^^ particular in dreffing or ftretching their fkins as the 

 inhabitants of Prince William's Sound and Cook's River; 

 neither were any of them marked with paint, as if in- 

 tended for a market, which is the general practice in the 

 Sound and River. I fliewed a man in the boat, who ap- 

 peared to be the chief, a marked fkin, and he imme- 

 diately knew (probably by the mark) what country it 

 came from, and defcribed the inhabitants as having their 

 under lips flit, and wearing ornaments in them. He alfo 

 defcribed their canoes, with their method of paddling; 

 and on being fhewn a model of the Prince William's 

 Sound canoes, he gave me to underfland that it was the 

 fame fort with thofe he had been defcribing. I learned 

 that they had an intercourfe with the natives of Prince 

 William's Sound; in the courfe of which, quarrels often 

 arofe, and battles frequently enfued ; and one of the men 

 iTiewed me a deep wound near his lip, which he received 

 in an engagement with them. That thefe people have 

 communication with each other, is pretty certain ; and I 

 am apt to think that this part of the coaft, and farther 

 on to the North Weft, is the country which the inhabit- 

 ants of the Sound call Wallamute; as I faw two dag- 

 gers in the poffeffion of two men belonging to old Sheena- 

 waa's tribe, which were made exactly in the fame manner 

 as thofe worn by the natives .at this place, and they gave 

 me to underftand that they had bought them at V/aila- 

 mute. The daggers which the people hereabouts ufe in 

 battle are made to flab with either end, having three, 



four. 



