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aloud, and alternately clafping and extending their arms; 
and, in a Ihort time, began a kind of fong exadlly after the 
manner of thofe at Nootka. Their heads were alfo powdered 
with feathers. One man held out a white garment, which 
we interpreted as a fign of friendfhip; and another flood up 
in the canoe, quite naked, for almoffc a quarter of an hour, 
with his arms flretched out like a crofs, and motionlefs. 
The canoes were not conftru6ted of wood, as at King 
George’s or Nootka Sound. The frame only, being flender 
laths, was of that fubflance; the outfide confiding of the 
fkins of feals, or of fuch like animals. Though we returned 
all their figns of friendfhip, and, by every expreflive gefture, 
tried to encourage them to come along-fide, we could not 
prevail. Some of our people repeated leveral of the com¬ 
mon words of the Nootka language, fuch as feekemaile , and 
mahook ; but they did not feem to underhand them. After 
receiving fome prefents, which were thrown to them, they 
retired toward that part of the fhore from whence they 
came; giving us to underhand by figns, that they would 
vifit us again the next morning. Two of them, however, 
each in a fmall canoe, waited upon us in the night; pro¬ 
bably with a defign to pilfer fomething, thinking we fhould 
be all afleep; for they retired as foon as they found them- 
felves difcovered. 
During the night, the wind was at South South Eah, 
blowing hard and in fqualls, with rain, and very thick wea¬ 
ther. At ten o’clock next morning, the wind became more 
moderate, and the weather being fomewhat clearer, we got 
under fail, in order to look out for fome fnug place, where 
we might fearch for, and flop the leak; our prefent flat ion 
being too much expofed for this purpofe. At firfl, I pro- 
pofed to have gone up the bay, before which we had an- 
Z z a chored ; 
Wednef. 13. 
