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A VOYAGE TO 
5778. upon a long pole, as a ftgn, as we underftood it, of their 
> y. 7, j peaceable intentions. This frock they conveyed into the 
fhip, in return for fome trifles which I gave them. I 
could obferve no difference between the perfons, drefs, 
ornaments, and boats of thefe people, and thofe of Prince 
William’s Sound, except that the fmall canoes were rather 
of a lefs fize, and carried only one man. We procured from 
them fome of their fur drefles, made of the fkins of fea- 
otters, martins, hares, and other animals; a few of their 
darts ; and a fmall fupply of falmon and halibut. In ex¬ 
change for thefe they took old clothes, beads, and pieces 
of iron. We found that they were in pofleflion of large 
iron knives, and of fky-blue glafs beads, fuch as we had 
found amongffc the natives of Prince William’s Sound. 
Thefe latter they feemed to value much, and confequently 
thofe which we now gave them. But their inclination led 
them, efpecially, to afk for large pieces of iron; which 
metal, if I was not much miftaken, they called by the 
name of goone; though, like their neighbours in Prince 
William’s Sound, they feemed to have many flgnifications 
to one word. They evidently fpoke the fame language; 
as the words keeta , naema , oonaka , and a few others of the 
moft common we heard in that Sound, were alfo frequently 
ufed by this new tribe. After fpending about two hours 
between the one fhip and the other, they all retired to the 
Weftern fliore. 
At nine o’clock, we came to an anchor, in fixteen fa¬ 
thoms water, about two leagues from the Weft fliore, and 
found the ebb already begun. At its greateft ftrength, it 
ran only three knots in the hour, and fell, upon a perpen¬ 
dicular, after we had anchored, twenty-one feet. The wea¬ 
ther was mifty, with drizzling rain, and clear, by turns. 
At 
