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A VOYAGE TO 
CHAP. V. 
The Inlet called Prince William's Sound.—Lts Extent. — Per - 
Jons of the Inhabitants deferibed.—‘Their Drefs.—Incifion of 
the Under-lip.—Various other Ornaments.—Their Boats .— 
Weapons , fifiing, and hunting Inftruments. — Utenfils .'— 
Tools.—Ufes Iron is applied to. — Food. — Language , and a 
Specimen of it. — Animals. — Birds. — Fi/h.—Iron and Beads , 
whence received . 
O the inlet, which we had now left, I gave the name 
X of Prince William's Sound. To judge of this Sound 
from what we faw of it, it occupies, at lead:, a degree and 
a half of latitude, and two of longitude, exclufive of the 
arms or branches, the extent of which is not known. The 
direction which they feemed to take, as alfo the fituation 
and magnitude of the feveral illands in and about it, will 
be bed: feen in the /ketch, which is delineated with as 
much accuracy as the diort time and other circumffcances 
would allow. 
The natives, who came to make us feveral vilits while 
we were in the Sound, were generally not above the com¬ 
mon height; though many of them were under it. They 
were fquare, or ftrong che/led; and the molt difpropor- 
tioned part of their body feemed to be their heads, which 
were very large; with thick, fhort necks; and large, broad 
or fpreading faces ; which, upon the whole, were flat. Their 
eyes, though not fmall, fcarcely bore a proportion to the 
dze 
