THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
337 
Were I to affix a name to the people of Nootka, as a 
diftinCt nation, I would call them Wakafhians ; from the 
word wakqfb, which was very frequently in their mouths. 
It feemed to exprefs applaufe, approbation, and friendfhip. 
For when they appeared to he fatisfied, or well pleafed with 
any thing they faw, or any incident that happened, they 
would, with one voice, call out wakajh! wakajh! I fhall 
take my leave of them, with remarking, that, differing fo 
effentially as they certainly do, in their perfons, their cuf* 
toms, and language, from the inhabitants of the iiflands in 
the Pacific Ocean, we cannot fuppofe their refpeCtive pro¬ 
genitors to have been united in the fame tribe, or to have 
had any intimate connection, when they emigrated from 
their original fettlements, into the places where we now 
find their defendants. 
My account of the tranfa&ions in Nootka Sound would be 
imperfeCt, without adding the aftronomical and nautical ob~ 
fervations made by us, while the fhips were in that ftation. 
The latitude of the 
Latitude . 
Sun - - 49 0 3b 7 
i 7/ , 15'" 
obfervatory by - j Stars {?, OU * 49 8 ’ 
4 North 49 36 10, 
36 
30 
The mean of thefe means - 49 36 6, 47 North. 
Longitude . 
("Twenty fets taken on the 1 
. e ° n ~ 21 ft and 23d of March j 
gitu e, Ninety-three taken at the 7 
byluna^ obfervat _ _ t 
nmprva- J 
Twenty-four taken on the 7 
1 ft, 2d, and 3d of May J 
obferva- 
tions 
a 33 ° off 18", f" 
233 18 6, 6 
233 7 16, 7 
The mean, of thefe means - 2 33 17 i 3 , 27 Ealt. 
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