THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
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CHAP. III. 
Manner of building the Houfes in Nootka Sound.—Infide of 
them defcribed.—Furniture and Utenjils.—Wooden Images. 
*—Employments of the Men.—Of the Women. — Food , animal 
and vegetable.—Manner of preparing it. — Weapons. — Ma¬ 
nufactures and mechanic Arts.—Carving and Painting .—* 
Canoes.'—Implements for Jifhing and hunting.—Iron Fools. 
—Manner of procuring that Metal.—Remarks on their 
Language , and a Specimen of it.—Agronomical and nau¬ 
tical Obfervations made in Nootka Sound. 
£ two towns or villages, mentioned in the conrfe 
A of my Journal, feem to be the only inhabited parts 
of the Sound. The number of inhabitants in both might 
be pretty exactly computed from the canoes that were about 
the Ihips the fecond day after our arrival. They amounted 
to about a hundred; which, at a very moderate allowance, 
muft, upon an average, have held five perfons each. But 
as there were fcarcely any women, very old men, children, 
or youths amongft them at that time, I think it will rather 
be rating the number of the inhabitants of the two towns 
too low, if we fuppofe they could be lefs than four times 
the number of our vifiters; that is, two thoufand in the 
whole. 
The village at the entrance of the Sound hands on the 
fide of a riling ground, which has a pretty fteep afcent 
Vql. II. S f from 
1778. 
April. 
