THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
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be drawn. In failing from Egoochfhak to Samganoodha, 1773. 
two or three canoes kept way with the fhip, though Ihe 
was going at the rate of feven miles an hour. 
Their filling and hunting implements lie ready upon 
the canoes, under ftraps fixed for the purpofe. They are 
all made, in great perfection, of wood and bone ; and differ 
very little from thofe ufed by the Greenlanders, as they are 
defcribed by Crantz. The only difference is in the point of 
the mifiile dart; which, in fome we faw here, is not above 
an inch long; whereas Crantz fays, that thofe of the 
Greenlanders are a foot and a half in length. Indeed, 
thefe darts, as well as fome others of their inftruments, 
are fo curious, that they deferve a particular defcription; 
but, as many of them were brought away on board the 
fhips, this can be done, at any time, if thought neceffary* 
Thefe people are very expert in ftriking fifli, both in the 
fea, and in rivers. They alfo make ufe of hooks and lines, 
nets and wears. The hooks are compofed of bone, and the 
lines of finews. 
The fifties which are common to other northern feas, are 
found here; fuch as whales, grampuffes, porpoifes, fword- 
fifli, halibut, cod, falmon, trout, foals, flat-fifh; feveral 
other forts of fmall fifli; and there may be many more 
that we had no opportunity of feeing. Halibut and falmon 
feem to be in the greateft plenty ; and on them the inhabi¬ 
tants of thefe ifles fubfift chiefly; at leaft, they were the 
only fort of fifli, except a few cod, which we obferved to be 
laid up for their winter ftore. To the North of 6o°, the 
fea is, in a manner, deftitute of fmall fifli of every kind; 
but then whales are more numerous. 
Seals, and that whole tribe of fea-animals, are not fo nu¬ 
merous as in many other feas. Nor can this be thought 
3 U 2 ftrange, 
