THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
417 
In the afternoon, having three hours calm, our people 
caught upward of a hundred halibuts, feme of which 
weighed a hundred pounds, and none lefs than twenty 
pounds. This was a very feafonable refrefhment to us. 
In the height of our fifhing, which was in thirty-five fa¬ 
thoms water, and three or four miles from the fliore, a 
fmall canoe, conduced by one man, came to us from the 
large ifland. On approaching the fliip, he took off his cap, 
and bowed, as the other had done, who vifited the Difco- 
'very the preceding day. It was evident, that the Ruffians 
muff have a communication and traffic with thefe people; 
not only from their acquired politenefs, but from the note 
before mentioned. But we had now a freffi proof of it; for 
our prefent vifiter wore a pair of green cloth breeches, and a 
jacket of black cloth, or fluff, under the gut-ffiirt or frock 
of his own country. He had nothing to barter, except a 
grey fox fkin, and feme fifhing implements or harpoons; 
the heads of the ffiafts of which, for the length of a foot, 
or more, were neatly made of bone, as thick as a walking- 
cane, and carved. He had with him a bladder, full of fome- 
thing, which we fuppofed to be oil; for he opened it, took 
a mouthful, and then fattened it again. 
His canoe was of the fame make with thofe we had feen 
before; but rather fmaller. He ufed the double-bladed 
paddle, as did alfo thofe who had vifited the Difcovery. In 
his fize and features, he exaffly refembied thofe we faw in 
Prince William’s Sound, and in the Great River; but he was 
quite free from paint of any kind; and had the perforation 
of his lip made in an oblique direction, without any orna¬ 
ment in it. He did not feem to underftand any of the 
words commonly ufed by our vifiters in the Sound, when 
repeated to him. But, perhaps, our faulty pronunciation, 
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