NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA. ^^i 



four, or five inches above the hand tapered to a fharp ^ ^^^ P- 

 point; but the upper part of thofe ufed in the Sound and » ■■■—/ 

 River is excurvated. Augufi. 



Mooda)' 6. 



Towards evening our viiiters prepared to go on fhore; 

 but, by wa)r of fecuring my friendfliip, were defirous to 

 leave one of their party on board for the night, and take 

 one of our people with them on fhore^ As they feemed 

 to betray neither a mifchievous nor thieving difpofition, I 

 had no objedion to the propofal,. particularly as I thought 

 the perfon who went might have an opportunity of ob- 

 ferving .wliat number of fea-otter fkins they poffeffed, and 

 might alfo form fome idea of their manner of living. Ac- 

 cordingly, I permitted one of my people to go on fhore, 

 and that I might be under no apprehenfion about his 

 fefety, two of the Indians (inftead of one, as was firft pro— 

 pofed) remained on board, and behaved remarkably well :. 

 they were both young, very well made, good-looking-, 

 men, and appeared to be brothers. The other man, who 

 appeared to be the chief of this fmali tribe, went away 

 M^th my man and the reft of his tribe at itvtn o'clock.. 

 I obferved they went to the Northward, and turned round 

 a point of land, beyond which m.oft probably their ha- 

 bitation was fituated. 



About eight o'clock next morning, the Indians returned Tuefday 7. 

 with our man, but they brought very little trade. The 

 perfon who went on fhore with the Indians infonned me, 

 that their relldence was at the foot of a hill near a run of 

 frelli water, which iffued out of an adjacent valley. Their 

 houie(for they had only one) appeared to be only a temporary 

 habitation, and he could obferve very few articles of trade- 



among. 



