39° 
A VOYAGE TO 
1778. being done, we anchored in nineteen fathoms, under the 
> May ‘_, fame fhore as before. The North Weft part of it, forming 
a bluff point, bore North, 20° Eaft, two leagues diftant; a 
point on the other fhore oppoftte to it, and nearly of the 
fame height, bore North, 36° Weft; our latitude, by ob- 
fervation, 6o° 37". 
About noon, two canoes, with a man in each, came off 
to the fhip, from near the place where we had feen the 
fmoke the preceding day. They laboured very hard in pad¬ 
dling acrofs the ftrong tide; and hefitated a little before 
they would come quite clofe; but upon figns being made 
to them, they approached. One of them talked a great deal 
to no purpofe ; for we did not underftand a word he faid* 
He kept pointing to the fhore, which we interpreted to be 
an invitation to go thither. They accepted a few trifles 
from me, which I conveyed to them from the quarter- 
gallery. Thefe men, in every refpeCt, refembled the peo¬ 
ple we had met with in Prince William’s Sound, as to their 
perfons and drefs. Their canoes were alfo of the fame 
conftruftion. One of our vifiters had his face painted jet 
black, and feemed to have no beard; but the other, who 
was more elderly, had no paint, and a confiderable beard, 
with a vifage much like the common fort of the Prince 
William’s people. There was alfo fmoke feen upon the 
flat Weftern fhore this day, from whence we may infer, 
that thefe lower fpots, and iflands, are the only inhabited 
places. 
When the flood made, we weighed, and then the canoes 
left us. I flood over to the Weftern fhore, with a frefh 
gale at North North Eaft, and fetched under the point 
above mentioned. This, with the other on the oppoftte 
fhore, contracted the channel to the breadth of four 
3 leagues. 
