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ressembler leurs manteaux ^ la peluche de soie la plus fine. Nulle part on ne tresse avec 
plus d’art des chapeaux et des paniers de joncs; ils y figurent des dessins assez agr^ables; 
ils sculptcnt aussi tres passablement toutes sortes de figures d’hommes, d’animaux, en 
bois ou en pierre; ils marquerent, avec des opercules de coquilles, des coffres dont la forme 
est assez 614gante; il taillent en bijoux la pierre serpentine, et lui donnent le poli du marbre." 
(P. 233.) 
(8) Journal of the Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort Simpson, 1834- 
1837 (Manuscript). Bancroft Collection, Vol. 4 
July 30. A party of Hudson Bay servants which had been sent to Tongass for spars was 
repulsed by the Russians. 
November 6. The Simpseyan Indians arrived with potatoes for sale, from Queen Char- 
lotte’s Island. 
1835 
April 30. Port Essington established on Skeena river. 
October 3. Bought 136 bushels potatoes of one party of Simseyans and 306 bushels of 
another. 
October 17. An Indian boy got hold of some rum and became intoxicated and while 
in that condition was locked by a Sandwich Islander, which vexed him so that he 
leaped over the stockade and tried to kill himself. 
(9) Narrative of a Journey Round the World, During the Years 
1841 and 1842, by Sir George Simpson, Vol. I 
"The West Coast people carve steamers, animals, etc., very neatly in stone, wood, and 
ivory^ imitating, in short, everything that they see, either in reality or in drawings; and I 
saw, in particular, a head for a small vessel that they were building, so well executed that 
I took it for the work of a white artificer. One man, known as the Arrowsmith of the 
northeast coast, had gone far beyond his compeers, having prepared very accurate charts 
of most parts of the adjacent shores.” (P. 207.) 
(10) Queen Charlotte Islands, a Narrative of Discovery and Adven- 
ture in the North Pacific by Francis Poole, C.E., 1871-72 
The Skidegales: "They showed me beautifully wrought articles of their own design and 
make, and amongst them some flutes manufactured from an unctuous blue slate. I bought 
one for five dollars. It was well worth the price. The two ends were inlaid with lead, 
giving the idea of a fine silver-mounting. Two of the keys perfectly represented frogs 
in a sitting posure, the eyes being pick^ out with burnished lead. A more admirable 
sample of native workmanship I never saw. It would have done credit to a European 
modeller.” (P. 258.) 
(11) The Haida Indians, by C. F. Newcombe, in the “Congres Inter- 
national des Americanistes, Quebec, 1906” 
The first solid ground we strike is in the year 1774, when Ensign Juan 
Perez, in the Corvette Santiago, from San Bias, in Mexico, accompanied by the Rev. 
Fathers Pena and Crespi, sighted the northwestern end of the Queen Charlotte group. 
Though the full accounts of this voyage have never yet been published, we know that, 
prevented by wind and fog from carrying out their attempt to round these islands, they 
turned southward without landing, but fo^t entered into communication with the natives 
and noted some interesting facts. The Indians, who were friendly, came off in canoes 
singing and scattering feathers on the water. They were glad to barter for knives and 
articles made of iron, their own stock in trade consisting of dried fish, furs, wooden boxes, 
small images, and mats of wool or hair. It is important to note that they already had 
