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country, iron pots and kettles, stewpans, frying-pans, boilers, tin basins, and the other 
household utensils with which the Ein’opeans have furnished the Americans, and the use 
of which is become as familiar to them as to ourselves. There were also seen sheets of 
copper, large pieces of bar iron, hatchets, adzes, joiner’s chisels, plane-irons, daggers, and 
lances, the whole of English manufacture, mingled and confounded with American lances; 
bones jagged or barbed for arming the point of the lances, fish-hooks of stone or bone . . ” 
(Pp. 417, 418, 419.) 
“It is not kn own what was, previous to their intercourse with Europeans, the primi- 
tive dress, the peculiar costume of these islanders; the English who had a communication 
with them before we knew them, have not thought fit to give us a description of it: we 
see only that these Americans have substituted to the fur cloaks, in which they at this 
day trade, and with which, no doubt, they formerly covered themselves, the jackets, great 
coats, trousers, and other garments in use in our countries; some even wear a hat, stoclangs, 
and shoes; and those who were clothed completely in the European fashion, would not 
appear in the midst of our cities, either as savages, or even foreigners. However, they 
do not lay aside the ornaments with which the people of the North West coast of America 
are accustomed to deck themselves; they wear ear pendants, and necklaces of glass-beads 
or of plaited brass wire, like those of the Tchinkitanayans; and the custom is common to 
both sexes. Those who have not yet adopted the European headdress, have a hat of 
plaited rushes, in the fonn of a truncated cone, widened and a httle turned up at its base.” 
(Pp. 439-440.) 
“As they have a spirit of imitation, we may presume that it will not be long before 
they improve among them the art of rigging and working their little vessels. 
He also presumes that these islanders must have been, or at least that they were for- 
merly, acquainted with an instrument of another kind, similar to a harp; and he grounds 
his opinion on a carved figure, which he examined, having its hands placed on an instru- 
ment of this sort. We must be surprised, no doubt, to find the harp known on the North 
West coast of America. An instrument so complicated as that which is composed of an 
assemblage of sonoroiis boxes, to which are fixed, by movable pegs, several strings more 
or less stretched in order to form a scale of sounds graduated according to a harmonic 
progression, implies the union of various branches of knowledge which belong not to 
a half-savage people. If anytliing could authorize the supposition that this instrument 
may have passed from the Old Continent to the New, it would be its antiquity, which is 
lost in the darkneas that envelops the early times of the History of Egjmt, the mother of 
the arts .... but it must be admitted that, to pass from Egypt to Queen Charlotte's 
Islands, this instrument, which is not very portable, would have had a great many countries 
to traverse.” (Pp. 4t4,’445, j446.) 
“Although this bay, exhaiLsted by the frequent visits of the Enghsh and of the Ameri- 
cans of the United States, had ill answered the hope that had been conceived of carrying 
on an abundant trade, yet Captain Marchand flattered himself that the more southern 
parts of the islands from Cloak Bay down as far as Rennell’s Strait, would afford more 
resources.” (P. 455.) 
“At a little distance from its mouth, on the south shore, is a cove, where they stopped: 
there was situated the habitation which the thickness of the wood concealed from view. 
On the shouts given by the men belonging to the canoe, several Americans ran out; and the 
former jumped on shore, making signs that they would soon return. In fact, they did not 
keep their new friends waiting; but, what was the surprise of the French^ when they saw 
all these Americans come back dressed in the English fashion! Cloth jacket, petticoat 
trousers, round hat; they might have been taken for Thames watermen: but as for furs, 
they had none; nor had they anything to offer but a few fishes.” (P. 462.) 
“But, on the North West coast of America, we have found houses with two stories, 
fifty feet in length, thirty-five feet in breadth, and twelve or fifteen feet in height, in which 
the assemblage of the framing and the strength of the wood ingeniously make up for the 
want of the more solid materials which, in order to be detached from the sides of the 
mountains or extracted from the bowels of the earth, require machines too complicated 
for the Americans to have been already able to have invented them: we see, in the small 
islands which would scarcely be thought habitable, each habitation with a portal that 
occupies the whole elevation of the fore-front, surmounted by wooden statues erect, and 
ornamented on its jambs ^^ath carved figures of birds, fishes, and other animals; we there 
see a sort of temples, monuments in honour of the dead; and what undoubtedly is no less 
astonishing, pictures painted on wood, nine feet long by five feet broad, on which all the 
parts of the human body, drawn separately, are represented in different colours; the features 
of which, partly effaced, attest the antiquity of the work, and remind us of those large 
