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make a new fore-top-maft, to replace the one that had been 
carried away fome time before. 
Next morning, about eight o’clock, we were vifited by a 
number of ftrangers, in twelve or fourteen canoes. They 
came into the cove from the Southward; and as foon as 
they had turned the point of it, they hopped, and lay drawn 
up in a body above half an hour, about two or three hun¬ 
dred yards from the fhips. At firft, we thought, that they 
were afraid to come nearer; but we were miftaken in this, 
and they were only preparing an introductory ceremony. 
On advancing toward the fhips, they all hood up in their 
canoes, and began to fing. Some of their fongs, in which 
the whole body joined, were in a flow, and others in quicker 
time; and they accompanied their notes with the moll re¬ 
gular motions of their hands; or beating in concert, with 
their paddles, on the tides of the canoes ; and making other 
very expreffive geftures. At the end of each long, they 
remained blent a few feconds, and then began again, fome- 
times pronouncing the word hooee ! forcibly, as a chorus. 
After entertaining us with this fpecimen of their mulic, 
which we liftened to with admiration, for above half an 
hour, they came along-fide the blips, and bartered what 
they had to difpofe of. Some of our old friends of the 
Sound, were now found to be amongft them; and they took 
the whole management of the traffic between us and the 
ftrangers, much to the advantage of the latter. 
Our attendance on thefe viliters being finiffied, Captain 
Clerke and I went, in the forenoon, with two boats, to the 
village at the Weft point of the Sound. When I was there 
before, I had obferved, that plenty of grafs grew near it; 
and it was neceftary to lay in a quantity of this, as food for 
the few goats and fheep which were bill left on board. The 
O o 2 inhabitants 
1778. 
April. 
Wednef. zz. 
