200 
“The construction of the Nootka houses, especially with respect to their inside, has 
been so fully treated by Captain Cook as to preclude any material addition from my pen; 
yet it is singularly remarkable (although particularly represented in Mr. Weber's drawing 
of the village in Friendly cove) that Captain Cook should not have taken any notice what- 
ever in his journal of the immense pieces of timber which are raised, and horizontally 
placed on wooden pillars, about eighteen inches above the roof of the largest houses in that 
village; one of which pieces of timber was of size sufficient to have made a lower mast 
for a third-rate man of war. These, together with the large images, were at that time 
supposed to denote the habitation of the chief, or principal person of the tribe; and the 
opinion then formed has been repeatedly confirmed by observations made during this 
voyage. One or more houses in many of the deserted villages, as well as in most of the 
in^bited ones we had visited, were thus distinguished. On the house of Maquinna were 
three of these immense spars; the middle piece was the largest, and measured at the butt- 
end nearly 5 feet in diameter; this extended the whole length of the habitation, which 
was about an hundred feet long. It was placed on pillars of wood; that which supported 
it within the upper end of the house was about fifteen feet in circumference, and on it was 
carved one of their distorted representations of a gigantic human figure." (Vol. Ill, 
p. 311.) 
(5) Miscellanies, by the Honourable Daines Barrington, London, 
1780 
Journal of a Voyage in 1775 to Explore the Coast of America, 
Northward of California, by the Second Pilot of the Fleet, Don 
Francisco, Antonio Maurelle, in the King’s Schooner, called 
The Sonora, and Commanded by Don Juan Francisco de la Bodega 
“But what they chiefly value is iron, and particularly knives or hoops of old barrels; 
they also readily barter for bugles, whilst they rejected both provisions or any article of 
dress." (P. 489.) 
“On the 9th of July I conceived myself to be in the latitude of the mouth of a river, 
discovered by John de Fuca (according to the French map)." (P. 493.) 
“During this interval the Indians trafficked with us for various kinds of animals, 
for which they expected some pieces of iron in exchange, which they manifested by putting 
their hands upon the rudder-irons; our people, therefore, procured them such, from old 
chests!" (P. 496.) 
(6) A Voyage Round the World Performed During the Years 1790, 
1791, and 1792, by Etienne Marchand — Translated from the 
French of C. P. Claret Fleur ieu, Vol. I, London, 1801 
“The articles which the natives preferred in exchange were basins, and especially 
those made of copper, stewpans, tin saucepans, iron pots, daggers, lances, halberts, pikes, 
and sabres: they set little value on hatchets, saws, two-handled knives, hammers, naUs, 
and other tools or instruments." (P. 284.) 
“The first navigators who visited the North West coast of America, in ascending from 
the forty-second degree of latitude to the sixtieth parallel, found that the knowledge and 
the use of iron had long since arrived there; and they saw, in the hands of the natives, 
various instruments and tools of that metal; it is probable that the latter received it from 
the interior, by communicating, from tribe to tribe, with the nations which receive it 
immediately through the medium of the Europeans, either from the English settlements 
of Hudson’s Bay or from the Spanish presidios. The trade of the Americans of the North 
West Coast with the Russians must, for upwards of half a century past, have made them 
acquainted with iron and copper.” (P. 341.) 
“The Tchinkitanayans are all armed with a metal dagger, fifteen or sixteen inches 
long, from two and a half to three broad, terminated in a point, and sharp on both sides: 
this is the weajwn which they are the most careful to preserve, and which they take a 
pleasure in keeping polished and bright: a grenadier is not more proud of his sabre than a 
Tchinkitanayan is of his dagger; he wears it in a shoulder-belt, in a leather scabbard, 
and is never without it, either day or night. It is with this weapon, which never ought 
