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A VOYAGE TO 
177?* We were clear as to the exiftence of all the animals al- 
A wf*i| 
_ _ , '_t ready mentioned; but there are two others, betides, which 
we could not diftinguifh with fufficient certainty. Of the 
firft of thefe we faw none of the fkins, but what were 
dreffed or tanned like leather. The natives wear them on 
fome occafions; and, from the fize as well as thicknefs, they 
were generally concluded to belong to the elk, or moufe- 
deer; though fome of them perhaps might belong to the 
buffalo. The other animal, which feems by no means 
rare, was gueffed to be a fpecies of the wild cat or lynx . 
The length of the fkins, without the head, which none of 
them had, was about two feet two inches. They are co¬ 
vered with a very fine wool or fur, of a very light brown 
or whitifh yellow colour, intermixed with long hairs, which 
on the back, where they are fhorteft, are blackifh; on the 
fides, where they are longer, of a filver white ; and on the 
belly, where they are longefl, of the colour of the wool; 
but the whitifh, or filver hairs, are often fo predominant, 
that the whole animal acquires a call of that kind. The tail 
is only three inches long, and has a black tip. The whole 
fkin being, by the natives, called wanjhee ; that, moft pro¬ 
bably, is their name for this animal. Hogs, dogs, and goats, 
have not as yet found their way to this place. Nor do the 
natives feem to have any knowledge of our brown rats, to . 
which, when they faw them on board the fhips, they ap¬ 
plied the name they give to fquirrels. And though they 
called our goats eineetla , this, moft probably, is their name 
for a young deer or fawn. 
The fea animals feen off the coafl, were whales, por- 
poifes, and feals. The laft of thefe feem only of the common 
fort, judging from the fkins which we faw here; their co¬ 
lour being either filvery, yellowifh, plain, or fpotted, with 
black. 
