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A VOYAGE TO 
1778. fort, which we called hook-nofed, from the figure of its 
—j head, that was but indifferent. We drew the feme feveral 
times, at the head of the bay ; and caught a good many 
falmon trout, and once a halibut that weighed two hun¬ 
dred and fifty-four pounds. The fifhery failing, we had 
recourfe to hooks and lines. A boat was fent out every 
morning; and feldom returned without eight or ten hali¬ 
but ; which was more than fufficent to ferve all our people. 
The halibut were excellent, and there were few who did 
not prefer them to falmon. Thus we not only procured a 
fnpply of Mi for prefent confumption, but had fome to 
carry with us to fea. This enabled us to make a confider- 
able faving of our provifions, which was an object of no 
fmall importance. 
Tfoirfday 8. On the 8th, I received by the hands of an Oonalafhka 
man, named Derramoufhk, a very lingular prefent, con- 
fidering the place. It was a rye loaf, or rather a pye made 
in the form of a loaf, for it inclofed fome falmon, highly 
feafoned with pepper. This man had the like prefent for 
Captain Clerke, and a note for each of us, written in a cha¬ 
racter which none of us could read. It was natural to fup- 
pofe, that this prefent was from fome Ruffians now in our 
neighbourhood ; and therefore we fent, by the fame hand, 
to thefe our unknown friends, a few bottles of rum, wine, 
and porter; which we thought would be as acceptable as 
any thing we had betides ; and we foon knew that in this 
we had not been miftaken. I alfo fent along with Derra¬ 
moufhk, Corporal Lediard of the marines, an intelligent 
man, in order to gain fome farther information, with or¬ 
ders, that if he met with any Ruffians, he ffiould endeavour 
to make them underhand, that we were Englifh, the friends 
and allies of their nation. 
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