PACIFIC AND BEERING'S STRAIT. 0^ 
^frequented parts of the island, carefully providing themselves with CHAP, 
me-arms. In this manner the men were kept in continual susnense 
dreading the result of each disturbance, as the numerical strength of 
the women was much greater than their own ° 
On the 4th of May, 1795, two canoes were begun, and in two 
days completed. These were used for fishing, in which employment 
the ^ople were frequently successful, supplying themselL with 
r«k-fish and large mackarel. On the 27th of December following 
hey were greatly alarrned by the appearance of a ship close in with 
the island. Fortunatelv for thpTvi iBov-rv . ^ 
tRo T 41 ^ ^ tremendous surf upon 
the rocks, the weather wore a verv iRvoofcs • ^ 
stood to the S P . 1 T ^ thieatening aspect, and the ship 
stood to the S E , and at noon was out of sight. Youn» annears 
to have thought this a providential escape, as the sea for a week after 
rislaTdT fr -ee their arrival on 
So httle occurred in the vear 17QG iRof- 
whole ofthe events; and throu^ghout Ihe ^Cg^LTClt 
three incidents worthy of notice The first thpi'r. i ^ 
cure a quantity of meat for salting T 
syrnp from the tee-plant (dr„c«.a terminalis) and sugar cje 1“^?' 
th..-d, a serious accident that happened to M^ry *171^ 
those ahead; rlted t 
side of the isW ^ ^ enlivened by visits to the opposite 
frequently at each othert h”*”^ ’ ‘*“‘”8 
fort of the woml wt „ ih"'’ ““e to the com- 
Tliere was also a mutll ac^m ““‘‘““ess. 
provisions, of which a regular accTun; Z 
that they hved m a very domestic and tranquil state^ “ 
It unfortunately happened that M'Cov had 
distillery in Scotland; and being very much addicted to “ 
an experiment with the tee-roo, and on the ^^h 
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