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The weather, bad as it was, did not hinder three of the 1778. 
natives from paying ns a vifit. They came off in two . May ‘ 
canoes; two men in one, and one in the other; being the 
number each could carry. For they were built and con- 
ftrudted in the fame manner with thofe of the Efquimaux; 
only, in the one were two holes for two men to fit in ; 
and in the other but one. Each of thefe men had a flick, 
about three feet long, with the large feathers or wing 
of birds tied to it. Thefe they frequently held up to 
us; with a view, as we guelfed, to exprefs their pacific 
difpofition 
The treatment thefe men met with, induced many more Thurfday 14, 
to vifit us, between one and two. the next morning, in both 
great and fimall canoes. Some ventured on board the 
fbip; but not till fome of our people had ftepped into 
their boats. Amongft thofe who came on board, was a 
good-looking middle-aged man, whom we afterward found 
to be the Chief. He was clothed in a drefs made of the 
fea-otter’s fkin; and had on his head fuch a cap as is worn 
by the people of King George’s, Sound, ornamented with 
Iky-blue glafs beads, about the fize of a large pea. He 
feemed to fet a much higher value upon thefe, than upon 
our white glafs beads. Any fort of beads, however, ap¬ 
peared to be in high eftimation with thefe people; and 
they readily gave whatever they had in exchange for them; 
even their fine fea-otter Ikins. But here I mull obferve,. 
that they fet no more value upon thefe than upon other 
* Exa&ly correfponding to this, was the manner of receiving Beering’s people, at the 
Schumagin Iflands, on this coaft, in 1741. Muller’s words are—•“ On fait ce que c’eft 
w que le Calumet , que les Americains feptentrionaux prefentent en figne. de paix. Ceux-ci, 
u en tenoient de pareils en main. C’etoient des batons avec atles de faucon attachees au, 
“ bout.” Decouvertesy p. 268. 
fkins. 
