we did not wilh to furround them, but held them in contempt, 

 went back to their houfes, as we did to our fhip, having procured 

 the wood and lingle maft which we wanted, though not fo much 

 water as would have been convenient ; but we did not think it 

 right to carry away more, that we might not further irritate the 

 inhabitants. 



At the mouth of the river there was abundance of fi{h, of 

 which our people caught many whilft we were on fhoar, and we 

 could have procured a fufficient quantity to have lafted us a great 

 while, had we been prepared with proper tackle. They were 

 well tailed, and in vafr. numbers. 



The mountains were covered with the fame fort of pines as at 

 'Trinity : the inhabitants alfo ufe the fame drefs, only rather 

 longer ; they likewife wear a cap over their hair, which covers 

 their whole head. 



The Spaniards, after this, inform the Indians, by %ns, that they 

 want water, on which one of the Americans brings a cup thus filled,, 

 with fome cured fim, half way acrofs the river, and flops there till 

 a Spaniard advances the other half to receive it, whilS bugles and 

 other trifles are offered in exchange by the Spaniards, and refufedby the 

 Indians, who infift on a better fort of payment. 



it is evident, by the prefents of the cup of water * and cured fifh,, 

 that the Indians wifhed to fupply all the wants of thefe Grangers as. 

 far as they were able, notwithftanding they had thus endeavoured to 

 gain a wrongful poIfdTon of their country ; they feem therefore to have 

 had a right to that fpecies of barter which they flood moft in need of. 



This contempt for bugles, and other trifles, offered by the Spaniards^, 

 is a further proof of the civilization of thefe Indians, whofe progeni- 

 tors, it mould feem, muft be rather looked for on the Afiatic, than 

 Labradore coaft, as I am informed that they have beards, which the 

 Indians of the central and Eaflern coafl of N. America have not. It is- 

 faid indeed by fome,. that thefe Indians eradicate their beard from its. 

 earlieft appearance ; but I can as little believe that this can be effected 

 by any induflry, as that they could by any art or pains make hair grow 

 upon the palms of their hands. 



* I am informed, that the inhabitants of K. George's Sound, on this lame coafl, infilled 

 upan dpt. Cook's paying for she grafs he had cut. 



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