baeanos -* & 
latitude. The pines that grow here were oe to meafure 
6 feet in diameter and 140:in height. ie Se eae is extreme- 
- vigorous during three or four months of the year, and the 
foil feems to be well adapted for all common plants. The 
woods abound with ftrawberries, rafpberries, and: goofeber~ 
ries. ‘The rivers are full of trout and falmon, and the bay 
Farnithes various forts of flat-fifh, and alfo of fhell-fith, In 
the woods were found bears, ears. and {quirrels, and the 
Indians fold bear-fkins, both black and brown, and thofe of 
i the mmon con aré thofe of the fea-otter, 
i and fice Although the different fpecies of 
ds are not numerous, yet individuals of each are plentiful ; 
even te copfes were -full of linnets, nightingales, black: 
birds, and water-quails, whofe fongs were very agree 
The primary mountains we granite, or .of {chitt, ae 
with eternal fnows, where no trees nor die are feen, have 
their bafes inthe water, and forma kind of quay along the 
imb 
our are 
are adapted to the rough and: ls (ae {tate of the foil ; 
anipil waging cor ntinual war with every kind of animal, they 
e 
‘Abbough the arts of life are here confiderably a 
andthey have mage conn able progrefs towards civilization, 
yet that kind of c civi lization w ich polifhes manners and 
foftens feroci cy; for their mode of 
mils agitated by fear or vengeance, 
ae ae as violence, they inceff: antly raife their poignards 
a nother. Subject to: famine in the winter, ee 
>» which they p 
with mac ur of paisa as the diffipated inhabitants 
fa great retropais, an nd, like them, the ieege it the grand 
inexhanttible fo e of quarrels. The {hips of the French 
navigators sabe ene ually furrounded i canoes of Indians, 
who, after a apfe of three or four hours, would co mmence an 
exchange : ip a few fith, or two or three otter-fkins, feize every 
ppporkynity of ‘plunder, fteal every piece of iron that could 
be carri way, and in the night time, by every means of 
eludin Vigilance, whilft the principal perfons among them 
amed 
_ but is es never 
ten Europeans together eae. Saeed a whole village 
Thi villa: ans cpnfifted:of three er-four -pentchon{es, 25 te 
it 
: or 20. broad, . covered anly to'w 
ke. Eig 
or twenty perfons lodged i in each of thefe nae Coen ; the 
women and children on one fide, andthe meri on the other» 
ay, carrying with them their fith and wood, 
whilft the: a of the village took no part in their proceedings. 
This port feems to be inhabited only during fummer ; ae 
there was not a fingle cabin — rom rain, and tho ough 
there were not at an e more than 3co se together 
in the bay, our navigators were vifited by 300 others. 
In their canoes they carried their houfes and featur, con- 
ef of feveral little chefts, containing their moft valua 
cabin 
3°90 
which they feem to have made any alliance, 
monly two or three of thefe in each. cabin 
um 5 ieee oe 
aeir 
nies, their hair is long, powdered, “and dreffed w 
down of various. fea-birds, which they count théir fbi) 
luxury. / n covers — fhoulders, whilft the ref of 
the gle is Heft naked. ‘They have great- varieties of head+- 
effes, which were formed ‘to render them, more frightful, 
and probably to infpire thei e Ors 
Some of the Indians had — fhirts of otter-flins, and-the 
ordinary drefs of the grand chi as a fhirt ma f the 
elk-fkin The arms of the w women only are tattooed ;. and 
communicate one idee fentiment. 
The colour of their {kin is brown, being tanned py conftant 
expofure to the fun, as their children are born white 
were loaded. with prefents, they were never afhamed of error that cigars are deftitute of beards. T. 
n ra, cloaths Thefe 1 people bodily frame i is feeble ; e of them indicated fymptom 
feemed to be always quarrelling among themfelves; were in- {curvy ; and they arrive i” M. ‘La Péroufe 
they. eon demned to inceffant and ca ee ble labour. 
pengaton never landed without being armed and in a 2 body, 
people greatly dreaded = mutkets ; and eight o 
5* 
common origin w 
and: the northern parts 
nada, 
of America, — Thefe Tndigne a. made much. : Saranas prior 
