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A VOYAGE TO THE 



c HA P. ^jj-^g red-hot ftones into them. They have tolerable ideas 



V > of carving, and indeed almoll eveiy utenfil they make life 



Auguft, of has fome kind of rude carving, reprefenting one animal 

 Tuc.ddy2i. ^^ other. WhilH: Woodcock was with them, one of the 

 women gave him a comb, wliich is made in fuch a man- 

 ner as to reprefent :an eagle ; aa engraving of both fides 

 of which. I have given in the annexed plate. But as cu- 

 riolities were not the articles we were in purfuit of, I gave 

 ftri6l charge to my people not to purchafe any thing, be- 

 ing apprehenfive that if I allowed a traffic of that nature, 

 the natives would not have been induced to have brought 

 us any fkins for fale, as they are very ufeful, and neceffary 

 for their clothing, whilft the others are only the amufe- 

 ments of their leifure hours, and many of them made by 

 their women. 



I SHALL now take leave of my Indian' traders, and 

 for the laft time of the American coaft. The ineftimable 

 value of their furs will ever make it a defirable trade, and 

 whenever it is eflablifhed upon a proper foundation, and a 

 fettlement made, will become a very valuable and lucrative 

 branch of commerce. It would be an eafy matter for either 

 Government or our Eaft India Company to make a fettle- 

 ment of this kind ; and the thinnefs of the inhabitants will 

 make it a matter of eafy practicability ; and as the Com- 

 pany are under the neceffity of- paying the Chinefe in 

 cafh for their teas, 1 look upon it a fettlement on this coaft 

 might be affeded at a very inconfiderable expence, which 

 would more than pay them for every article that is brought 

 from China. Another convenience likely to accrue^ is 

 from a well-known enterpriling charader having, if he 

 meets with proper encouragement from the country, in- 

 tentions 



