A VOYAGE TO 
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CHAP. IX. 
Behaviour of the Natives , the Pfchutjki , on feeing the Ships. 
—Interviezv with fome of them.—Pheir Weapons. — Per- 
fons. — Ornaments. — Clothing.—Winter and Summer Ha¬ 
bitations.—Phe Ships crofs the Strait , to the Coaji of Ame¬ 
rica.—Progrefs Northward.—Cape Mulgrave .— Appear¬ 
ance of Fields of Ice.—Situation of Icy Cape.—Phe Sea 
blocked up zvith Ice. — Sea-horfes killed , and ufed as Provi- 
fions.—Phefe Animals defcribed.—Dimenfions of one of 
them.—Cape Lifburne.—Fruitlefs Attempts to get through 
the Ice , at a Diftance from the Coaji.—Obfervations on the 
Formation of this Ice.—Arrival on the Coaji ofAfia.—Cape 
North.—Phe Profecution of the Voyage deferred to the en- 
fuing Tear. 
A S we were Handing into this hay, we perceived on the 
North fhore a village, and fome people, whom the 
light of the fhips feemed to have thrown into confulion, or 
fear. We could plainly fee perfons running up the coun¬ 
try with burdens upon their backs. At thefe habitations I 
propofed to land ; and, accordingly, went with three armed 
boats, accompanied by fome of the officers. About thirty 
or forty men, each armed with a fpontoon, a bow, and ar¬ 
rows, Hood drawn up on a riling ground clofe by the village. 
As we drew near, three of them came down toward the ffiore, 
and were fo polite as to take off their caps, and to make 
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1778. 
Auguft. 
C_— v - f 
Monday 10. 
