"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=460916"@en . "British Columbia Historical Books Collection"@en . "Dixon, George, -1800?"@en . "Portlock, Nathaniel, 1748?-1817"@en . "2016-03-02"@en . "1789"@en . "\"A few copies printed on heavy paper with the 5 ornithological plates coloured.
Beresford's account of the voyage (no.37) complements this. In some bibliographies the various editions, abridgements and translations have been confused.
Appendix: pp[i]-xl. Tables of the route of the King George and Queen Charlotte, the variations of the compass and meteorological observations during the voyage.\"-- Strathern, G. M., & Edwards, M. H. (1970). Navigations, traffiques & discoveries, 1774-1848: A guide to publications relating to the area now British Columbia. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, pp. 239-240."@en . ""@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcbooks/items/1.0225979/source.json"@en . "272 pages : map (folded) ; 22 cm"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " CONTENTS.\neffAPTER \u00C2\u00A3\nAc$$&nf\of*the jiiffer$nt Perfo^mhofrfl carried\non the Fur Trade. jj\u00E2\u0080\u0094 The King George's\nSound Company ejlablifhed.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Two Veffels pur-\nchafed.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Completion of their Crewsy and\nNames of the Officers^.f-^Paffagtfrom Grave*\nfend to Portfmouth.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Employments.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Their\nDeparture from Portfmputh.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Arrival at\nGrueryfey. j||| ft\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-. i \"\ \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nmm\nCHAPTER II.\nffl\nVarious \Refrefhme>nft procured at Guemfey.\u00E2\u0080\u0094>\n... Leave that Place $Mproceed on the Voyage,\n&~ArrivaJ at St. f^gQx\u00E2\u0080\u0094Refrefhmenis to be\n.vv\nmet\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094-- \u00E2\u0080\u009E,-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nBBBiS I\nC O N T E N T S. I; \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 v\nmet with there,\u00E2\u0080\u0094Departure from thence.-\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nFprtunate Prefervation of a Boy, who fell\noverboard,\u00E2\u0080\u0094-^Arrivalat Falkland's I/lands.\n%M immm tier' '\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0CHAPTE\nAX X*>'\nLeave Falkland's Iflands.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Arrival at Sandwich Ijland\.\u00E2\u0080\u0094UnritiyqBehavtpur of the Natives. \u00E2\u0080\u0094Refrefhments procured,\u00E2\u0080\u0094Departure\nfrom Whahoa,\u00E2\u0080\u0094Account of the prefent Go-\nM^vernment^^Anchor at Oneehow.\u00E2\u0080\u0094rTranfac**\niions tmre.\nCHAPTER IV\n9&-**J\nContinuations of TranfaUions at Oneehoift;\nDeparture from it.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Arrive infigHt of A-\nmerica.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meet with Ruffian Settlers.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Arrival in Copik's Ritper.\u00E2\u0080\u0094-Vifted by a Ruffian\nChief.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Anchor in Coal Harbour.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Vift the\nRuffian Settlement.-r-Indians come to the Ships\nwith Furs.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Sheefo a Tvieving Difpofition.\nBring SalmorL\u00E2\u0080\u0094Defcflption of the Cmintry.\nJlequejled by the Indians to join againft the\n' Ruffians. CONTENTS.\nRufians.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Proceed towards Prince Williams\nSound.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Prevented making it by contrary\nWinds.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Proceed along the Loajt.\nCHAPTERfV. > :\nArrive at Owhyhee.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Reftejhments obtained.-\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nNatives Propenfity to theft.-\u00E2\u0080\u0094*Plan of future\nProceedings.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Leave Owhyhee% and Anchor at\nWhahoa Vifted by Taheeterre.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Pernicious\nEffects of the Tava-Root.\u00E2\u0080\u0094An Eatooa ere&~\ned.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Chiefs make Offerings to their Gods.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nMeditate an Attack on the Ships.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Shewn\nthe Effect of Fire Arms.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Indians embark\nfor Atooi. Take leave of Taheeterre.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The\nold Pr left.-~ Anchor in Wf?noa Bay, Atooie\n\\u00E2\u0080\u0094An Excurjim on Shore.\n.\u00E2\u0080\u00A2^, . CHAPTER VI. * . \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 '%\nVariety of Refrejhments procured.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Vifted by\nthe King.\u00E2\u0080\u0094A large Jhark caught.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Orate-\nful Behaviour of Neeheowhooa.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Arrival at\nOneehow.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Leave Oneehow, and arrive at\na 3 - Atooi.\u00E2\u0080\u0094'-\n\"*E CONTENT SJ\nAtooi.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Remarkable Cirmmfkance of a Woman, vi^U^ktpffl a&*feifrBreaft.--*-Chief\nExercife wiib Spears.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Houfe buifffor Captain Portlock.\u00E2\u0080\u0094fyave Atoqr9 and arrive at\nOneehow*\u00E2\u0080\u0094An Attempt on the Life of an\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Atooi Chief \u00E2\u0080\u0094^^epartufie frem Sandwich\nJflands.\nK:..\vVirl. *M>]\nfrw1\nCHAPTER $11.\nArrival at MontSgu fftand.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Anchor in Han-\nrifng's, Bay.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Boatsfent on a Trading Expedition.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meet with a Veffelfrom Bengal.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nTheir diftrefjed Situation. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Refrejhments\nfent them.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Vifted by a powerful Tribe of\nIndians.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Their Propenfty to theft.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Leave\nMontagu Ifland.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Ships feparaie'.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nArrival if the King George in Hinchinbrooke\nCove.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Indians vift the Ship with Sea-otter\nSkins. Boats fent on a Trading Expedition.\nPlundered by the Indians.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Arrival of the\nNootka.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Long-Bcatfent to Cook's River.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nDeparture of the Nootka.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Lo?ig-Boafs Re-\n[xtufn.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Vifted by different Tribes of Indians.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Abundance CONTENTS.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2^Abundaty^Mjf Salmon, Merrings^and\nygCrabs.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Departure froa? Por& E&$es*ueen\nCharlotte\-~-The Veffelspart Company.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Arrival at St. Helena.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Veffels meet there.\nDeparture fr%n thence, and Arrival in\nJLnglandMk \"ytffl- n: '^^feP^'^^^p- '\npop\n'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00A78 s>|\nvm\n- , \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 A\nVOYAGE. &c\n, 'Zgffil :W HAPTER Ijjg;. y. '; -\nAccount of the different perfons who firjl carried on the Fur Trade.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The King George's\nSound Company eftablifhed.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Two veffels pur-\nchafed. The completion of their crews, and\nnames of the officers.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Paffagefrom Gravefend\nto Portfmouth.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Employments.-r\u00E2\u0080\u0094Their departure from Portfmouth.\u00E2\u0080\u0094ArMval at\nH Guernfey.\nx HOUGH that illuftrious navigator,\nCaptain Cook, did not, with all his fkill\nand all his perfeverance, obtain the great\nobjeft of his voyage to the Weftern coaft of\nAmerica, the difcovery of a practicable\npai^ge from the North Pacific to the North\nAtlantic ocean, he furnifhed |Philofbphy\nwith many additional fa\u00C2\u00A3ts, and he opened\nto pomifterce feveral extenfive pfofpe\u00C2\u00A3ts^\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 '' - J The iCL\n1 A VOYAGE TO Tttt\nThe voyages of the prefent reign, as they\nwere profeeurted wit^ views the moft difin-\nterefted, were expo fed to. the world without\nreferye, and every nation and every individual had thus an opportunity of forming\nnew defigns, either for the cultivation of\nfcienee, or the advantage of traffic. , \u00E2\u0096\u00A0.;...\nIf Great Britain owe' f^ethmj&to France,\nfor her dsfcoveries in former times, the\nFrench are nrilcb indebted in the prefent to\nth&\" BflfeHli mariners, for laying open the\nwhold globe to humeri ^es, and to human\ninduftry. The French King, with a noble\nemulation, feems to have fent out feveral\nofficers with fuitable accommodations, to\nfollow the trails of the fucceffive voyages,\nwhich had been fo happily atchieved under\nhis Majefty's aufpices; though an Efigffih\nfe^man may be allowed to fayT that the\nFrench navigators failed in their wake, at a\ngreat diftance a-ftern. No fooner were the\nvoyages of Cook, of Clerk, of Gore and\nKing accomplilhed, and their narratives\npublifhed, than a new expedition wis, in\n178 5, difpatched from France, under the\n\u00E2\u0082\u00ACon\u00C2\u00AB* ; , - N0RTH-WE\u00C2\u00A7T COASf 5t AMERICA. J\ncon$u\u00E2\u0082\u00ACtof Meflfe. Peyrov^ and t>e Laiiglei\nin onfer to glean on this ample field!, what\nthe misfortune of Cook had left unattained,\nAs early indeed as 1781, a well known\nindividual, Mr. Bolts, attempted an adventure to the North Pacific Ocean, from the\nbottom of the Adriatic, under the Entpe-\nror's Flag ; but this feeble effort of an- imprudent man failed prematurely, owing to\ncaufes which have not yet been fufficientljj\nexplained. . The projeft of Bolts appears\nto have been early, and adopted by the\nBritifh fubjelts, who are fetiled in Afia,\nand* who Hand high, in an aftiva age, for\nknowledge and for enterprize. They were\nnaturally ftruck with the fuggeftion of\nCaptain Cook, what a gaif&ful trade might\nbe carried on- from America to China for\nfurs; and a brig of fixty tons, with twenty\nmen, under the command of Jathes Hanna,\nwas, in pu^fuit of tMs flattering objefty\ndifpatched1 frofti the ri^'er of Canton in April\n1785, and after coafting Northward,, and\ntraverfing die Souttern''^xtreitiity of J&pan,\nthis brig arrived in the $lbfe$juent Auguft at\nB 2 Nootka \u00E2\u0080\u0094aa\nAS\nA VOYAGE TO THE\n'ii\nV. :\nNootka Sound, the American mart for peltry : whatever may have been the fuccefs of\nHanna, in 1785, he performed, in a larger\nveflel, a fimilar voyage in 1786. In this\nyear the merchants of Bombay fent two ref-\nfels under the dire&ion of James Strange *r\nwhile the traders of Bengal difpatched two\nfliips which were commanded by Lieutenants\nMear and Tipping, to the American coaft\nfor furs, in the hopes of^Indian profits.\nThefe feveral adventures, the gains of which\nwere no doubt greatly amplified, incited to\nfimilar purfuits the torpid fpirit of the Por-\ntugueze at Macao, whofe fathers had been\nthe difcoverers, the conquerors, and mono-\npolifts of the Eaft. \u00C2\u00A7|L \u00E2\u0080\u00A2. ,.- ,i . - .;\nThefe enterprizes have proved extremely\nimportant to the world, though their profits^\nconfidering the capital and the rifques, were\nnot envioufly great. Thefe enterprizes, however, by enlarging the limits of difcovery,\nmade navigation motfe fafe in the North\nPacific Oce&n i'f$they familiarized the South\nSea iflanders to European perfons, manners\nand traffic $ they taught the American fa-\nvages.\n!i NORTH-WESTHEtoAST OF AMERICA.\nvages, th&t ftrength muft always be ft&bor-\ndinate to difcipline: and having difcovered\nHie Ahooa Indians on the borders of Nootl^l\nSolind, who had % farAdvanced fitom the'lf\nfavage ftate as to refufe tofelftto Mr. Strange,\nfor any5price, cthe peflffy whll6lPfl!l9y-h8S al~\nre^8y engaged to Mr.'Hanna. p^he^^nter-\nprizes Save afcertaine#*his exhilarating truBl\nto nilnkSid, that civilization and morals\nmuft tor ever accompany each other. In\nthe effluxion of agdf^er^&ds often arife,\nwhen mankind, by #confentaneAus fpirit,\npurfuewith'ardori anafagous enterprizes. At\nthe Smefc'poch, Coluhibus and Gaffia were\nem^KM?^ the origin difcoVe^ng the'lands\nin the Weft, tfife othe^ in exploring^the regions *of the E&ft\u00C2\u00A7 In the preferit- times, the\nBritfh, the French,;Carid the Spaniards, at\nthe fame momentallied themfelvesin fearcKt\ning every coaft and ever^%re$k, witMhe glorious purpofe of benefitting the Buflran rae%\nby adding to their ^appiiiftls.pWhfle tifofe\nadventures we're thus 'performing from .the\nEaftern extremities bf-Afia, to the Weftern\njfhores' rdf America^ private peffdhs ^uil'deft\ntdoK-k mbre:afdti6usrvoyage^ M a like kind,\nB 3 from m\ntt.\n1\n6\nA VWAGE TO T#E\nJ^-om England. It was in MayHi'785, that\nRichard Cadman Etdjes, and o||herjtraders,\nenticed injo a co\u00C2\u00A7\u00C2\u00A7raerq^j[ parti^jr#iip, ^nde}*\nthe titlg of ^^^Cii)g George's Soujid Company, $)r carrying on a r^r tr^de |$om the\nW^fterji coaft j^;;Ame||ca \u00C2\u00A3p China,| For\nthi^pgigjojfe, tjieyjj^affied a licence froj^i\nthe South Sea Company, who, without carrying on any traflic therpfelves, ftfpd in the\nmercaiarjfflba w^ of more adventurous mer-\nif^jajQts. tfjji^y ^^cpr^d alfo a iimilaj^^ence\nfroW|tl\u00C2\u00A7g^ft^^p^:^pi9|>any, who, at the\n/?fne$i9\u00C2\u00BB engaged to give ti^em a freight of\ntea$ %gfgrp^gton. jpfj|{^ enterprize of the\nI^HISG^^ge'sSoi^^Comp^iy a|bne evinces\n^^!;&^lfe#9Mrtnerfl1ips and Englifti\ncapites cojuJ*| ^ndertaj^i and execute, v^ere\n^ey lef\u00C2\u00A7:oppofed by pipju^ice, and reftrained\nhy mojnop<^ies. ^&BHfeder to execute this de-\nngg^ljigjj^i'ng George's Sound Company\npy^cljgfed a~\u00C2\u00A7)$p of 320, and a fnow of 200\ntons $ ^|4ng thiyj a fi^e and burthen which\nCaptain Cc^||^-g||fr adequate trials, recom-\nmeggjft4 %\u00C2\u00A5 W$ &*?\u00C2\u00A5% ^or dift^nt empjpy-\n#ients, an^^fki^^ pwing $> the merct^iits\nexpgfig8?& ?nS^4-&?PP$R ?j9\u00C2\u00B0ys m dj?\n11/ ..;|Pi ;Jj\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 greateft\n^^Ma^fc' NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. J\n'greats^numbers. Thefe veffels were in^\nfee^iatrfy put into-dock, in order ifchat they\naaaight flae completely fitted for fo long a\nvoyage. With aihthe fkiil and diligence of\ntjie flripwid^ats of the Tfaames, jtwas not,\nhowever, tjil the 8fch of July that thefe vad\nfete' were moored at Deptford, for the con*\nvienience of<'\u00C2\u00A3tting their riggiag, engaging\nfeamen, and taking onboard fuah ftores &nd\ncither necefflaries as were judged needful fof\na v&yage>tff fueh length aad variety. The\nbeft prbvifions were pwfi$Mfed, aiieing ths\ndheapeflrjiii'the end ; a&d great attmtioia wp\niafed in providing thofe aiticles which' were\nthouglht^oft likelyiko j^rfeferve rihe hea|th of\nthe^rews, by adding to their ooxiifbrts. fp||\nIn the mean time, the Owners appointed\nMr. N^rfia\u00C2\u00ABiel iPortlock Commandfer of the\nlarger vefTel, andGeo#ge Pixdft of the fmqjd\nler^ both of diem having accompanied Cap-\ntaiS.C4\u00C2\u00ABtfin his laft voyage to the Paeiiic\nOcean, were deemed 3&oft proper for an adventure which required no common knowledge and experience: othfcr officers of dto*\npetent talents were at the fame time appQlnt-\nB 4 edj \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 /\nA VOYA\u00C2\u00AEfiCTO THE\nI\n, ed, in order that they might know each other\nand facilitate the outfit-^ The nriii&iy of\nthis enterprize attra&ed the noticed federal\nperfons, who were e&iinent eitheMbr. talents\nor ftation, and whfei promoted this voyage\nby their countenance, i or ftreiigthened. the\nCompanyiby their approbation, rf When$ir\nJofeph Bai^tksiand Lor\u00C2\u00ABMVJulgrav^ Mr. R&fe\nand Sir John Dickccame oa boatd^the Se-\nfc^tanj^ tonthe Treafury yarned therilargeft\nveffel the King George, and the Rrefideattof\nthe Roykl Spciet^jcalled the fhialler the\nQueen Charlotte. Exsluilve of the profits of\ntraffic, or the advantages of difcovery, this\nvoyagj^was deftii^fbtp<\u00C2\u00AEther national objefts*\nSeveral gentlemen's fons who l^il /hewn anr\ninclination to engage in a fea-faring life, were\nf>ut:under Captain Bprtlock's <^re, for the\npurpofeof being eafjyi^itiated inJ^&^now-^\nledge of a prof effion ygfetch requires length of\nexperience, rather than\u00C2\u00A3$|fQ$vemitt\u00C2\u00A3ifce of genius. At; the fame time was engaged William Philpot E^ans, md JofepfoWoodooeft,\ntwo of the pupils of Mr. Wales, the Mafter\nof the Mathematical School in Chrift'-fc Hof-\npital, who were able to afiift in teaching the\n**\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2- -I \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 $Wi ' / boys NORTH*WEST COASlT OF AMERICA. 9\nboys the rudiments ofcna$fe;ation, arid rfiight\nbe ufefSlfy employed in 'tiffing vie\#l *# re-\nmarkamfc firtSis, and ;Wfcoriffi?u\u00C2\u00A312ng iShatfe\nof commodious harbdurs;11\nHaving got moft of their ftores on bo&r-cl,\nthey proceeded down the river, and arrived\noff Gravefend on the 29th of Auguft, when\nthe articles of agreement 'refpefting the\nvoyage were read to both ftiips companies:\nfome of them at firft refufed to fign, but\nafter a proper explanation, they all chearfully\nconfented, except two, who were immediately\ndifcharged. The next day, the crews were\npaid their river wages, with a month in advance, and having ftood towards the Downs\nwith a frefh South Wefterly wind, the fhips\ncame to anchor the fame evening in Margate Roads.\nFrom this time to the 7th of September,\nthey were detained by a very fevere gale in\nthe Channel,, when they came to anchor at\nSpithead. During their ftay there, they were\nemployed in getting fuch articles as had not\nbeen provided in London, that were thought\nto A VOYA^ TO T,HE\nto be?#fceflary in (o long a voyage. j^By\n$P $ \u00C2\u00A3^k every tfgjfigw^s got re^iy; at 7\no'Clopl^ rronu^he inorning of ^jhe i6jth got\nunder fail; and at .$ o'clock ^g tlf\u00C2\u00A3 ey^ning\nof the 20th came to anchor in Guernfey\nRoa<|| NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. J I\n-\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0' \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 i CHAPTER II. ^fjg>\"-\nVarious Refrefhr%ei$s procured at Guernffipgr--\nLeave that Place and proceed on fbgfVoyage.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Arrival at St. Jago.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Rcfrtfy^'^fs to be\n.\u00E2\u0080\u00A2jftet with there.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Departure from tfofflce.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nFartun&te prefervat,ion of a Boy thff feU\n^ffverfagrd.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Arrival at Fftikla^d Iftayds.\njtVs it v&$ the intention of the Owners to\nhave tire J$yi\u00C2\u00A3 quantity of li/jj^pr fenfgdout\nto the fhip;\,\u00C2\u00A3#$ipanies as if cuftomary on\nboard .his Majefty's veffels, their principal\nbufmefs- at Guernfey was* to procure \u00C2\u00A7: pi'9f\nper-fuppfy 6f liquor for that purpofe. Aa^\ncordingly, they receivqid on board a quality\nof fgirits, port wine, and cyder, which engaged, them till the 24th.\nOn the 25th unmoored, h\u00C2\u00A3d a very-^easgj\ngale, when the wind fuddenly chopping\nround, Captain Portlock gave orders for the\ntop-gallant maft to be ftruck, ajjd got u]%>q\nilfck; likelwife caufed preparation to be ma^fi\n|^r ftri^fcg the top-mafts, and fpliced one of\nthe 12\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nIt \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nthe new cables to the beft bower, intending,\nfliould the gale continue till the evening, to\nlower the top-mafts, and to have veered to\na cable aftd half on the beft bower, and half\na cable on the fmall oife. %f tfte fhip had not\nheld faftwith thete precautions, he meant to\nhave run through the Little Ruflels, as he had\na pilot tin boafd, and behaving the lower\nyard aloft, might have brought her under\nthe courfes, and on occafion, the top-fails\n\u00C2\u00A3fcfe reefed -, but foriunately, towards' the\nevenM^y the wind got round to the ^Northward;-though it continued BfiJvriftg^in fud-\nden gufts through1 thevnight?:- At fix o'clock\nin the morniiig br^the 26tB,D weighed Anchor ^'and on Monday thei^^^.^ftdber,\narrived fafe at St: Jago, whefe^after \waiting\non the Commander of the fort, whois ftiled\nthe Captain Moor, and paying a port charge\nof four dollars for each veffel, Captain Port-\nlock went to infpe<9??he welIs,xboth of which\nhe found' tc^fierexcelfent water. rThey were\ninformed that a market wbiHd^be held at\nPraya on the morrow, where they could be\nprovided with plenty pf-Iive;ftbck;, and various : kinds of rrefrefhments, : which are\nr^:\ li .\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 V brought NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\nit\nbrought there by the inhabitants from different parts of the ifland. On the 25th.)\nwere employed in purchafing hogs, goats*\nfheep, and oranges, which they met with in\ntolerable plenty. E Every bufinefs at this\nplace being compleated, they propofed leaving\nit the firft opportunity; and by day-light\nthe 29th, unmoored, weighed, and made\nlit 11* IgSrJ;\nSt. Jago is generally mountainous, and\nappears to be a very fine ifland; but their\nfhort ftay, and other profeffional duties, pre-\nveg|ed them from having any opportunities\nof viewing the interior parts of the country.\nThe vallies are fertile, and there is mijch\nland, which feems fit for producing fugar\ncane. They raife cotton. Some of the natives appear to be induftrious, but are exceedingly oppreffed by the Portugueze fol-\ndiers, who exa\u00C2\u00A3t an exorbitant toll from the\nunhappy countrymen who bring their commodities to market. On the whole, they\nfound the refrefhments which St. Jago fup-\nplies,^ makes it a very eligible ftation for\nthofe veffels to touch at, which are employed\nill in i I\n14 A VOtfAtfE TO THE'\nin the Southern Whale Fifherv. From this\ntime to the 15th of November nothing particular occurred, when DaVid GiUmour, a boy\nabout ten years old, fell overboard from the\nweather main fhrouds, and not beiftg a!6fe to\nfwim, dropt a-ft\"ern, when tvzrf effort to-fave\nhim would have been n*fe!efs, had not Providence enabled him to! keep above water till\nthe boat picked him up, which was at the\ndiftance of two hundred yards from the fhip,\nand had been about ten minuted in the water:\nwhen got on board, he was almbft de&d with\nfright and fatigue. On the 4th of January,\nthey came to anchor at Falkland Iflands,\nwhere they found a tolerable good hafbour,\nand other conveniences for watering, with-a\nfandy bottom in twelve fathom water. fts\nhappened unluckily, that neither of the\nfliips had a feparate map of Falkland Iflands j\nthis circumftance, together wrtfh variable\nwinds, occafioned them to approach with\ngreat caution. At this place all Mnds had5\nleave given them to go on fhore, with a'\ndoiitile allowance of brandy, and fome frefh\npork killed for the occafion, made thfcf\n($hriftmas pafs very pleafantly. Some of ihe\njlf - ; -\"M- ' ' \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ,S PeoP^e\n,/\u00C2\u00BB NORTH-WESIT COAST OT AMERICA.\ni$\npeople on fhore made excurfions into various parts of the country, and they difco-\nvered the ruins of a town, with fome garden\ngrounds around, where they found feveral\nforts of vegetables, fuch as horfe-raildifh,\nlhalots, a few fmall potatoes, and fome celery, which was in a degenerate ftate \ they\nlikewife faw a hog, but he was fo wild they\ncould not catch him. Amongft a variety o\u00C2\u00A3\nthe feathered creation, which they found at\nFalkland Iflands, was the yellow winged\nBuntkig, the rufty crowned Ploter, and the\neiiiereorasLark, which had never been figured\nin England before, and may be ittn in Capt,\nPofttock's Voyage, lately publifhed*\nCHAP-\nw A -V-DYAGE TO TttE\nCHAPTER III.\nLeague Falkland Iflands'.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Arrival d\u00C2\u00A5S&ndwich\n1 -jfflands.^\u00E2\u0080\u0094Unrufy behaviour of the Natives.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nKefrefhments procured. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Departure from\nWfWhahoa.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Account of thje prefent Government.\u00E2\u0080\u0094They Anchor at Oneehow.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Tranf-\naSlions there.\nAVING completely furnifhed them-\nfelves with every neceffary that could be\nprocured at Falkland Iflands, on the 23d of\nJanuary, with a fine Southerly breeze,\nweighed anchor,- and came to fail. On the\n27th they doubled the Eaft Point of Staten's\nLand. From this time to the 7 th of May,\nthey experienced a great deal of bad weather. In rounding Cape Horn, and being\nnow in-the Latitude of 20 deg* 1 min.\nSouth, and 134 deg. 11 min. Longitude,\nthey expefted to have fallen in with the\nIflands of Los Majos, being the fituation\nthey are laid down in; but unfortunately\nfor them, they could find no fuch Iflands, be-\nR\n1 ttORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\n*7\ning a miftake of the Spaniard from whofe,\ncharts Captain pook copied it. Their people\nbeing many of them in a fickly condition,,\nobliged them to,make away as faft as pofliA\nble to Owhyhee, the principal of the Sandwich | Iflands, where they arrived. on the\n24th :\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 when a number of the natives-came,\noff in their&anqes, and brought with them,\nfome fmall hogs and a few plantains, which\nwere bought for beads and fmall pieces_of\niron:, a number of theirrfifliing lines w^|~\nfcaiii King, and\nfeemed by their be*haVid$t *te think they\nwerfe come to revenge the death of Captain\n&)bk.\nI\niff\nOn the 26th an inferior Chief came art\n!>bard, who informed them that Tetfeeoboo\nwas TCiiig of Owhyhee, when Captain Cook\nwas killed at that ifland, and that the prefect feng's hame was Maiha Maiha: he im-\n$'61*tuneii 'Captairi ^Pbrtlock very ftrongly to\ngo oil fhore. On his declining, that propofal^\n%& told hfel that the King; would pay him a\nf iiit the neXt d&y. They paid little regard\nto this intelligence, as it was &ot likely that\nhe would venture on board after the aftiVe\n$art he took in that ^unfortunate affray\nwhicn terminated in the much lamented\ndeath &ORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\n19\ndeath of Captain Cook. Many ianoesiame\nalong fide, and the people were very importunate to come on board: they behaved in\na very daring, infolent manner, and it was\nwith difficulty they were prevailed on to\nquit the-(hip. They put up with thefe in*\nconveniences rather than ufe violence, if it\ncould poffibly be helped 3 yet thefe appearances made them fearful of doing their bull-\nnefs at Karakakooa with eafe, particularly\nto fill their water, and get the fick people on\nfhore. As they approached the harbour,\ngreat numbers of canoes joined thuenn, and\nhung fo much on the fide of the fhip as to\nretard their progrefs (o long, that they did\nnot get anchored till four o'clock. As foon\nas this was done, they were immediately fur-\nrounded with amazing numbers of the natives, who grew very troublefome, conftant-\nly crawling up the cable and the fhip's fide,\nvfrhichkept the people fo much employed,\nthat it was fome time before they could get\nmoored. During this time, no Chief, who\nhad any command on the people, aaade his\nappearance, which was very unfortunate fear\nthem; for could they have got a perfon of\nv C 2 if confequence <20\nA VOYAGE TO T#E\niconfequence cm board, he would have kept\nthe reft in order, and their bufmefs would\nhave been done wi|fe eafe and difpatch. In\nthe courfe ,of the afternoon they purchafed a\nnumber of fine hogs,, and a good quantity\nof fait, with plantains^potatoes, and taro,\nwhich laft was the;beft they had ever feen.\nBread-fruit was fearce, and what j'they\n-got was not in a perfect ftate, wljich made\nthem conclude it not to be the proper feafon\nfor it. At night, fires were lighted all round\nthe bay, and the peopk; on fhore were ij|.\nconftant motion. Several canoes continued\nnear the fhip, and about midnight one of\nthe natives, brought off alighted torcji, feern-\ningly with an inten&pnlpf feting fire to the\nveffel:~ on their driving hiui away, he paddled\nto the Queen Charkrt%; but they being\nequally prepared, he. made his way to fhore\n.again. Next day, by day-light, they were visited by greatynultitudes of the natives; but\n50^11 no Chiefs $9^de their appearance- and\nvthe people gr$w fo infolgit and daring, that\nthey wera^inder a neceffifjf of^: placing cen-\ntinels with cutlaffes to prevent their boarding them. This unexpected reception con-\naa&Di vinced ^NORTH-WEST COAST OP AMERICA.\n21\n^inced'them that nothing could be done on\nfhore but with a very ftrong guard, and\ntaking a ftep of that nature might be productive of fatal confequences, which determined them to leave Karakakooa as foon as\npoffible. Notwithftanding the concourfe of\nIndians that furrounded the fhips, they faw\nnumbers collected in bodies on fhore; fome\non the^beach, and others on the top of a\nhill which commands the watering place;\nand there appeared a great number of Chiefs\namongft: them. At nine o'clock Captiain\nPortlock gave orders to unmoor; but the\n#oud of people was fo great, that their boats\ncould fcarce pafs to their buoys. In this\nfituation, it became abfolutely neceffary to\ndrive them away; and Captain Portlock was\ndefirous of ufing fome method that would\nfrighten without hurting them ; accordingly, afeer drawing out the fhot, they fired fix\nfour pounders and fix fwivels; at the fame\ntime their colours were hoifted, and thejhip\ntaboo'd, by hoifting a white flag at the maintop-gallant maft head. This had the desired effe\u00C2\u00A3l; for, immediately on their be*\nginning to fire, the Indians made fir fhorj* U-9\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nwith the utmoft precipitation. In the hurry\nand qonfufion which was occafioned by this\nalarm, many of the canoes were overfet, the\nowners not flaying to right them, but fwam\nimmediately on fhore. -.ft \fLs * . *\nThey now unmodred without moleflation,\nand ljj>on after began to warp out of the bay,\nuntil they were at the diflance of three\nleagues from Karakakooa, where they wer|\nimmediately furrounded by a great number\nof canoes, with plenty of hogs, and vegetables \u00C2\u00A9f various kinds, which were purchafed,\nand the hogs falted for fea flock. This\nfituation they found much more convenient\nfor carrying on their bufinefs than the harbour; for here they had a fine free air*\nwhereas in the bay it was fo extremely clofe\nand fultry, that there is a great probability of\nthe meat being fpoiled even after it is falted,\n'*$\u00C2\u00A3'.'\nill!:;.\nOn Sunday the 28th, they flood along the\nftrt^re, many of the canoes ftill continuing\nabout the fhip, fome of which brought water\nin cakbafhes, which was bought for nails, water at this time beginning to be ar\ article of\nluence UORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\n?3\n(ppnfequence to the;m. Having broached\ntheir 5 2d butt, and having yet no certaipty\nof bei^ig able tQ water at thefe iflands, they\nnow proceeded to Whahoa, where they came\nto anchor in a good bay, which Captain\nPortloqk named King George's Bay;\nfoon after their arrival, feveral canoes came\nalong fide with cocoa-ni|ts and plantains, in\nreturn for which they had fmall pieces of\niron, and a few trinkets. On the 2d of June\ngreat numbers of both fexes were in the\nwater, impelled by curi$\u00C2\u00A3ty to pay them a\nvifit, notwithftandgpg they were fome distance from fhore; and as watering the fhips\nwas of material cpnfequence, Captains Port-\nloe& and Dixpn both went on fhore, where\n$J*ey met with no oppofition from the natives) but on the contrary, they were revived with marks of l^i^dn^fs, and every\nqueftion anfwered with readjnefs and plea-\nfure. On enquiry for water, they were\nconducted to a kitjd of bafon formed by the\nr<>cks, about fifty yards from the pjace where\nthey landed $ trot the quantity fo fmall, that\nit would not even afford a temporary fupply.\nOn this they egquifed for jjiore, but found\nf G 4. none 24\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nnone to be had but at a confiderable diftanee\nto the weftward. After making the Indians\nfome trifling prefents, they returned to their\nboats, and rowed to the northward clofe to a\nreef which appeared to run quite acrofs the\nbay, about a quarter of a mile diftanee from\nthe beach. Having*proceeded nearly a mile\nin this dire\u00C2\u00A3tipn, a fmall opening in the reef\nprefented itfelf, for which they fleered. The\nchannel was narrow, but in the middle they\nhad two fathoms, water; after getting\nthrough they had from three to four fathom\nover a bottom of fine fand, and good room\nbetween the reef and beach for a number of\nveffels to ride at anchor. They landed on a\nfine fandy beach, amid ft a great number of\nthe inhabitants,,who all behaved with great\norder, and never attempted to approach\nnearer than they defired., They informed\nthem there was no water near their landing*\nplace, but plenty farther down along fhore;\nand one of the natives undertook to be their\nguide. However, their progrefs was foon\nimpeded by a little fait-water river that has a\ncommunication ' with King George's Bay.\nThis putting a flop to their progrefs by\n\M land,\nXi NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 25\nt\nland, they had recourfe to their boats, and\nattempted'to get to the weftward within the\nreef, but found the water fo fhallow that it\nwas-impracticable; fo they returned by the\npaffage^hey went in $t, and afterwards rowed\nto the Wiftward, keeping clofe along the\noutfide of the reef, until they got near the\nwatering place pointed out by the Indians.\nIn this fituation, feeing a fmall opening in\nthe reef, they made for it; and the moment\nthey made it a breaker overtook them, and\nnearly filled and overfet their boats. However, through good management .of the\nfteerfmen, who were the third mates to each\nfhip, they efcaped without any misfortune,\nthough they had the mortification, after\ngetting over the reef, to find the water fo\nfhallow they could not get within two hundred yards of the fhore. Under thefe cir-\ncumftances, they found they could not water\nhere without an infinite deal of trouble, be-\nfides the danger of lofing their cafks, getting\nthe boats dafhed to pieces againft the rocks,\nand the inconvenience of carrying their cafks\nfo far amongft a multitude of Indians,\np-which would make it neceffary to hav#an\narmed 2k\nA VOYAGE TO THE\n11\narmed force on fhore, the fhips lying at too\ngreat a diftanee for them to cover or fecure\na watering party: they therefore determined\nto give up the idea, and fent two boats, the\nfirft opportunity, to examine the Weflern\npart of the bay for a good landing place and\nconvenient watering.\n' They returned on board, and found a pretty brifk trade carrying on for hogs, fogar-\ncane, and vegetables; the Captain having\nleft orders for every thing that was brought\nto be purchafed. As they had no time to\nlofe, they were under a neceflity of coming\nto, fome refolutibn about watering the fhips j\nand both the Captains being inclined to think\nthe natives might be induced to bring water\noff, fufficient at leaft for a prefent fupply;\nat all events, with proper care, they had\nfuflxcient to ferve three months logger, but\nit happened to be all in the ground tier; they\ntherefore determined to have all the water\ngot to hand, and the ground tier filled wj&h\nfait water. In the mean time, all hands that\ncould be fpared were employed in repairing\nthe rijgjng, ana in every refpe\u00C2\u00A3l making the\nveffels\n<<\u00E2\u0080\u00A2>. NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\nveffels fit for the farther profecution of their\nvoyage, as foon as the crews were properly\nrefrefhed. Their prefent fituation being\nthe moft eligible one they knew of at thefe\niflands, they refolved not to quit it till all\ntheir hufinefs was compleated. Early on\nthe 3d of June, Mr. Hay ward and Mr .White,\nin a boat from each fhip, were difpatched to\nexamine the Weft part of the bay for a landing place and frefh water; they were Eke-\nwife ordered to land, and make an excurfion\nto that part of the ifland, as there appeared,\nfrom the fhip, to be a fine deep bay in that\nfituation. The natives now began to bring\nthem water very brifkly, and fome of their ca~\nlabafhes contained near ten gallons ; for one\nof thefe they gave a tenpenny nail, which was\nmuch cheaper than they could poffibly procure\nthe water themfelves, allowing for the damage\nthe boat would fuftain, and the prefents they\nwould have been under the necelfity of making on fhore to the Chiefs. m:. .\nThe weather being now fine, all the ailing\npeople were fent on fhore, under the care of\nhe Surgeon of the King George -, and as the\nnatives\n4- i\n\u00C2\u00A5\n28\nA VOYAGE TO THE\niH\nnatives had behaved, to this time, in a quief,\ninoffefive manner, there was rib 'danger of\ntheir being molefted. No Chiefs of confe-\nquence as yet had paid tRfem a vifit; inferior\nones indeed came on board without feruple,\nand fome of them flept on board evePy4iight:\n' amongft the reft they had a daily vifit from\nan old prieft, who always brought, by way\nof prefent, a fmall pig, and a branch of the\ncocoa-hut tree. From hihi they learned that\ntheir prefent king's name was Taheeterre;\nand%hat he was alftS king of Morotoe and\nMowee. The old man informed them that his\nrefidence was in a bay round the Weft point,\nand importuned them very much to bring the\nfhips there, as that place, he faid, afforded\nplenty of fine hogs and vegetables. ^Indeed\nthey had fome reafon to think the inhabitants\non that part of the ifland were more numerous than in King George's Bay, as they ob-\nferved moft of the double canoes came round\nthe Weft point; but as the people now\nbrought/them plenty of water, they determined to keep their prefent fituation, it being\nin many refpecls a very eligible one; for they\nhad hitherto been favoured with a moft re-\nfrefhing NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA,\n29\nfrejfhing fea breeze, which bbws^ over the\nlow land at the head of the bay -, and the\nbay all round has a moft beautiful appearance, the low land and vallies being in a\nhigh ftate of cultivation, and crouded with\nplantations of taro, fweet potatoes, fuga$v\ncane, &c. interfperfed with a great number\nof cocoa-nut trees.* which renders the pro-\nfpe\u00C2\u00A3l truly delightful. .\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2-,'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2; f s ^ ;\nIn the afternoon, the boats returned) and\nMr. Hay ward reported that he had landed in\n-jjjie Weft p4\u00C2\u00A3t of the bay, where hejmet wit]}\na pond of flanding water a but it was very\ninconveniently fituated, and could ?not be got\nat without difficulty^He afterward^fwalke^|\nup to a rifing groundr~>from whiph he could\nperceive the land round King George's Bay\nto fall in, and form a fine jcjeep b$y, running\nwell to the Northward, and the V^ftward\nland ftretching out to the Sou^ward. Th^SL-\nhowever, did not induce them to change their\nprefent fituation. Towards evening the Surgeon returned on board .with the invalid\nand reported that the inhabitants had be-\nhaved in a.very quiet and inpffenfive marpar^\nthough &\nA VOYAGE TO THE\n11\n11\n1 \"'\ni\n1' 1\n. 'ill\n. &\nI\nI\nir 1\n11\n' If\nthough they were rather incommoded by the\nmultitudes which curiofity brought about\nthem. By the 4th of June all their water\nwas got from the ground tier, and the cable\ncoiled down. The inhabitants now brought\nthem water in fuch plenty, that by noon this\nday, they had filled all their empty cafks,\nhaving produced twenty-nine butts, eight\nhogfheads, and three brandy pipes, which\ncontained 130 gallons each: as good water,\nin any quantity, may be procured at this\nifland with the great-eft facility, for fmall\nnails and buttons, it undoubtedly is the beft\nand fafeft way of procuring it. Potatoes\nand taro they met with in plenty; but bread,\nfruit, and yams fcarcely ^ny, which made\nthem conclude they were not cultivated by\nthe natives of Whahoa. Having compleat-\ned their water, and procured fuch refrefh-\nments as the place afforded, they determined\nto maHe for Oneehow without lofs of time,\nin order to get a fupply of yams, which that\nifland produces in abundance. On the 5th\nthey weighed, when their friend the prieft\ncame on board to take his leave, and brought\na Tery good feathered cap, as a prefent for\nCaptain\njJt. NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\n3*\nCaptain Portlock, from Taheeterre; in return he fent him two large towees, and otfati?\narticles of trifling value; they likewife gavd\nthe prieft a light horfeman's cap, and another\nto a young Chief who had been a conftant\nvif&or fince their arrival, being defirous to\nfliew any future navigator tfea\u00C2\u00A3 might touch\nthere, tJiatiflie place had recently been vi-\nfited by Briftfh fhips. They were highly delighted- with forms. The greateft\npart^ghf^aggers left in the time ofC^ok,\nfeemmoftlytf center,in this iiland, j\u00C2\u00A7or they\nfcarcely e$er faw a large canoe in which the\nnatives had not one a piece, and atjOwJjyhee\nthey did not fee above ;t$go or three.-^guhey\nare a dangerous and definitive weapon, they\ndid not fuffer any to be made iiwithpft fhip*\nthough ftrongly imgortuned by the natives.\nCaptain Portlock fays, he was always averfe\nto it in the laft voyage, thinking it jjf ry imprudent to furnifli thgrn with w^apomrthat\nmight, at one,time or another, be turned\nagainft themfelves ;|}:and his fufpicipns were\nbut too well founded, as it was fuppofed\nthat their late Commander, Captain.Cook,\nfell by one of thefe daggers. He unfortu-\n|!||\u00C2\u00A3ly fet the example, by ordering fome daggers to be made after the mpdel of the Indian\npahooas, and this practice was followed by\nevegy one on board that could raife. iron\n^miMm :If\"-IB ' \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 enough\nHM3L\n$J NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 33\nr\nenough to make one; fo that the armourer,\nduring their flay at thefe iflands, was employed in little elfe than making thefe de-\nftru\u00C2\u00A3tive weapons; and fo liberally were they\ndifpofed of, that Captain Portlock faw eight\nor nine given by Captain Clerk to Maiha\nMaiha in exchange for a feathered cloak;\nthough fince their arrival this time they pur-\nchafed fome cloaks confiderably better than,\nthat of Captain Clerk's for a fmall bit of\niron worked into the form of a Carpenter's\nplane: thefe the Sandwich Iflanders make\nufe of as adze, and call them towees, and\nto them they anfwer every purpofe of an\nedged tool.\nSince the year 1778, which was the time\nthefe Iflands were difcovered, there appeared\nto be almoft a total change in the Government. From every thing they could learn,\nTaheeterre was the only furviving Monarch\nleft amongft the Iflands. He then was\nKing of Moretoi only; and Peereoraune, who\nnow governs Whahoa, was at war with\nhim, and had fent a number of fighting\ncanoes to attack his dominions. It feems\nthat 6 A\non'\nA VOYAGE TO THE\ni\nI 3\nthat Peereoraune's forces were worfted oil\nthis occafion ; for prefently after Taheeterrd\ntook poffeflion of Whahda, and ftufhed with\nhis fuccefs, he attacked and took thf Ifland\nof Mowee, which, as before obferved, is now\nannexed to his dominions. Tereeoboo,\nwho at that time was King of Owhyhee and\nMowee, fell in battle whilft defending his\ndominions.|f They had no reafbn to doubt\nthe truth of thefe relations, for Maiha\nMaiha, the prefent King of Owhyhee, at the\ntime they laft were there, was only an inferior Chief, and is now, as they underftood,\nin fome manner fubje\u00C2\u00A3l to Taheeterre; befides\nwhich, the Whahoa Chiefs having in then\npoffeflion moft of the daggers left at Owhyhee, is a moft convincing proof that they\nhave been victorious -, for they know that the\nnatives of thefe Iflands will never part with\ntheir weapons but at the expence of their\nlives. From the beft information that could\nbe got, they found that the principal of the\nSandwich Iflands were governed at this time*\nby the following perfons: Whahoa, More-\ntoi, and Mowee, were fubject to Taheeterre;\nMaiha Maiha governed Owhyhee and Ranai; NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\n35\na\nnd a Chief, whofe name they underftood\nwas Ta'aao, was King of Atooi and Onee-\nhow.\nAt five o'clock in the morning of the 7th\nof June they were off Atooi 5 the Eaft fide\nof the land rifes gradually from the fea fide\ntill it terminates in high land, which feems\nfituated near the center of the ifland. Thefe.\nhills are clothed to the fummit with lofty\ntrees, whofe verdure has a beautiful appearance. The land next the fhore affords a few\nbufhes/but feems quite-uncultivated, and destitute of inhabitants. rOn the Eaft ete fhore\nis a few fmall fandy bays, but they afforded us\nno fhelter for fhips to ride in. After palling\nthe South Eaft point, they found the land\ncultivated in general, and houfes were fcat-\ntered here and there all along fhoie to the\nWeftward. By noon they had feveral canoes\nabout the fhip, from whom they procured\na few vegetables; but the furf ran fo high on\nthe beach that the natives could not bring\noff any confiderable quantities.\nAs they knew Atooi affbfded plenty of\nD z fine 36\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nfine hogs and other refrefhments, they flood\nin for Wymoa bay, where Captain Cook\nanchored the laft voyage, being defirous to\nget fome good hogs for falting, and likewife\ntaking a live flock to fea, but were difap-^\npointed, and obliged to anchor at Oneehow.\nNo fooner were they moored than feveral\ncanoes vifited them, bringing yams, fweet\npotatoes, and a few fmall pigs. Amongft\nthe people who came in thefe canoes were\nfeveral faces whom Captain Portlock remembered again, particularly an old prieft\nin whofe houfe a party of them took up their\nabode when detained all night on fhore by\na heavy furf, and who treated them in a\nfriendly manner. Their principal bufinefs\nbeing to procure a good flock of yams, they\nhad the pleafure to have them brought in\ngreat plenty; but they began to be doubtful\ng,bout the hogs, for as yet they had {etn but\nfew, and thofe none of them exceeding the\nweight of twenty pounds. They expected\nto find no difficulty in procuring water, as\nMr. Bligh, who was Mafter of the Refolu-\ntion during the laft voyage, difcovered the\nbay they now lay in, and found two wells of\nfrefh NO;RTH-W\u00C2\u00A3ST COAST OF AMERICA. 37\nfrefli water in the neighbourhood of their\nprefent fituation.\nEarly oh the 9th they were furroundedby\ncanoes, who brought a plentiful fupply of\nyams and fugar-cane. A Chief named Ab-\nbeflfboe/iwhom Captain Portlock knew when\nat this Ifland before, paid them a vifit, and\nimmediately recognized his old acquaintance.\nHaving appointed fix perfons to trade with\nthe natives, the Captain went on fhore in\nfearch of the wells mentioned by Mr. Bligh,\naccompanied by Abbenooe as a guide. Upon\ntheir landing, a number of the natives who\nwere affembled on the beach, retired to a\nconfiderable diftanee, alid they walked to the\nwells without the leaft moleftation; one of\nthem had tolerable good water, the other\nvery brackifti and (linking. The good water was fituated about half a mile to the\nEaftward of the beach, and the direfl path\nto it was over a fait marfh, to avoid which a\nconfiderable circuit muft be taken which\nrenders th6 fituation very inconvenient. A\nfhip in diftMfs for water might procure it\nhere, though much time muft be fpent in\ndoine\n3 3\nA VOYAGE TO THE\ndoing it. The Captain recommends to all\n(hips watering among Indians, to have their\nca(ks hooped with wood inftead of iron, for\nthe purpofe of filling on fhore ; thefe might\nbe darted afterwards into other ca(ks. ^By\nthis means much mifchief might be avoided,\nfor the Indians would have no temptation\nto (leal them, and might fafely he trufted to\nafiift in rolling them. ' >\u00C2\u00A7j ,,\n..\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 After examining the wells, they made an\ncxcurfion into the country, accompanied by\nAbbenooe and a few of the natives. The\nifland appeared well cultivated, its principal\nproduction y^msj there $re befides, fweet\npotatoes, fugar^cane, and the fweet root\ncalled by the natives tee. A few trees are\nfcattered here and there, but in little order\nor variety; fome that grew near the well juft\nmentioned, were about fifteen feet high,\nand proportionably thick, with fpreading\nbranches and q. fmooth bark; the leaves\nwere round, and they bore a kind of nut\nfomewhat refembling a wallnut; another\nkind were nine feet high, and had bloffqms\nof a beautiful pink colour. They alfq observed XSORTH-WjBfiT COAST OF AMERICA. 39\nferved another variety, with nuts growing on\nthem like our horfe chefnut. Thefe nuts,\nthey underflood, were ufcd by the natives as\nfubftitutes for candles, and they give a moft\nexcellent light. After having viewed every\nthing remarkable on this fide the iflaMd, they\nrepaired on board, accompanied by Abbe-\nnooe, and found a brifk trade carrying on\nwith the natives; a few hogs had likewife\nbeen purchafed, fufiicient for daily confump-\ntion.\n\\n4-\nchap- 40\nA VOYAGE TO THE\n-J\"- -f CHAPTER \u00C2\u00A3$>.\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 'Wm- f\nContinuation of tranfa^ions at Oneehow.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Departure fr$&i it.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Arrive in fight of At&eri-\nca.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Megfo wi& %uffi4nffcttlers.\u00E2\u0080\u0094-rArrival\nin Cook's River.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Vifite^by aRuffa$ft\u00C2\u00A3hiefi\n- Anchor in CoalJ^arbo^'r.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Vift the^Ruffian\nSettlement.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Indians come to the fhip s with\nFurs.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Shew a thieving difpoftion.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Bring\nSalmon.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Defcription of the Country.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Re-\nquefted by the Indians to join againft the Ruffians.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Proceed towards Prince William's\nSound.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Prevented making it by contrary\nwinds.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Proceed a-long the Coaft.\nAVING already obferved that Oneehow\nbelonged to Ta'aao, King of Atooi, they\nlearnt that he was there at prefent, and that\nAbbenooe governed Oneehow in his abfence.\nThey made the old man a prefent of fome\nred baize, with two large towees, which he\nfent away immediately to Ta'aao at Atooi,\nand gave them to underftand that they might\nexpert\nHI ,NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 41\nexpeft plenty of hogs and vegetables from\nthat place iM confequence of that prefent.\nThey feemed to place little reliance on this\npiece of information; but on the 10th, was\nagreeably furprifed to fee Abbenooe's mef-\nfenger return, accompanied by feveral large\ndouble canoes, wMeh brought a number of\nf ery fine hogs to be difpofed of, together with\ntaro and fugar cane. The meffenger informed them that Ta'aao himfelf meant to have\npaid them a vifit, but that he could not leave\nAtooi under fix or feven days, being detained\nthere during that time in order to perform\nfome religious ceremonies, for one of his\nwives who was lately dead \u00E2\u0080\u00A2> and this information was likewife confirmed by Abbenooe.\nHowever, they had no great reafon to regret\nthe abfence of his Majefty, *for Abbenooe\nkept the natives in very good order, encouraging them to bring whatever the ifland\nafforded ; and after the people of Atooi had\ndifpofed of their cargo, he fent them back\nfor a frefh fupply. #\nBeing defirous of making Ta'aao fome\nfurther acknowledgement, for his fupplying\nus /\n42\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nns with the various refrefhments Atooi afforded, though at fuch a confiderable diflj\ntance, they fent him as a prefent a light-\nhorfeman's cap. This, however, Abbenooe\nfcarcely thought fufficient, and ftrongly importuned Captain Portlock to fend with it\nan armed chair, which he had in the cabin,\nas it would be peculiarly ufeful, he faid, to\none of the King's wives, who had lately\nIain in. He willingly complied with his\nfriend's requeft, and the cap and chair were\ndifpatched to Atooi, under the care of fpecial\nmeflengers. Their bufinefs now went regularly and brifkly forward, the trading\nparty were bufily employed in bartering for\nyams and other refrefhments; and others\nwere bufied in killing and fal^ng for fea\nflore. Obferving the natives to break the\nyams in bringing therp. off, which prevents\ntheir keeping for any length of time, Captain Portlock's Second Mate was fent on\nfhore on the nth to purchafe fome, by\nwhich means they procured a large quantitjf\nof very fine ones. Since their arrival at this\nplace, fuch of the feamen as were fcarcely\nrecovered were fent on fhore, and found\ngreat\n\"5sJ NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 43\ngreat benefit from exercife and land air.\nIndeed the inhabitants of this Ifland are not\nnumerous, and they were kept in fuch order\nby Abbenooe, that the people walked about\nwherever inclination led them, without the\nleaft moleftation: befides hogs and vegeta-\ntables, they purchafed fome fait fifh of various kinds, inch as fnappers, rock-cod and\nbonetta, all well cured and very fine; the\nnatives fupplying them with water in cala-\nbafhes, fufficient for daily ufe, and to replace what had beengexpended iince they\nleft Whahoa. Curiofities too found their way\nto market, and they purchafed fome very\nfine fly flaps; the upper part compofed of\nJbeautiful variegated feathers, the handles\nwere human bone, and inlaid with tortoife-\nfhell in the neateft manner, which gave\nihefti the appearance of fineered work. By\nthe 12th they had purchafed near thirty\nhogs, weighing, on an average, about fixty\npounds each; the principal part of which,\nwere brought from Atooi: thefe they\nfalted for fea-ftore, as they got daily fupplies\nfufficient for prefent confumption. By this\nfime fhey had procured near ten tons of yams\non 44\nA VOYAGE TO THE\non board the King-'George, and about eight\ntons on board the i Queen Charlotte. The\nhealth of both fhipscrews perfeftly reftored,\nand every neceflary bufmcfs compleated,\nthey now began to ifeake preparation for fea,\nas the feafon for commencing stifaeir operations on the American Coaft, was already\nbegun. At five o'clock in the morning of\nthe 13th of June, they unmoored, and at\neight weighed, and got under fail; (landing\nout of the; Bay, which attained the name of\nYam Bay, from the great quantity of yams\nthey perciived there. As their vifit to thefe\nIflands was a very tranflent one, they had\nlittle opportunity of obtaining any information refpe6ling the manners and cuftoms\nof the natives, fo that the reader muft col-\nleft what little intelligence can be given from\nthe following, detail of their tranl&ftions.\nHog^, fweet potatoes, taro., fugar canes\nand yams, may, as has been obferved, be procured in aim oft any quantity ; and water is\nfo cleverly procured^ that in little more than\none dpy, they got upwards of thirty tons on\nboard. Amongft the tefreflimerfts theft\nIflands abound with, the fweet root or tee,\nwhich NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\n45\nwhich they met with in great abundance at\nWhahoa, deferves particular attention, as it\nferved them to make very good beer 5 which,\nafter two or three trials, they brought to\nperfection. The great utility of this root,\nwas not known in the laft voyage, fo that\nthe method they made ufe of to brew it, may\nnot be amifs in this place. The root was\npeeled very clean, cut into fmall pieces, and\nput into a clean kettle, and fix of the large\nroots were found a fufficient quantity for\ntwelve gallons of water. This was put on\nthe fire at three o'clock in the afternoon,\nand after boiling an hour and a half, was\nput away tja cool. By the time the water\nwas lukewarm, a gill of prepared yeaft was\nadded, and afterwards it was put into a\ncafk. It generally began to work about midnight, and by nine o'clock the next morning,\nit was excellent drink. They found it ne-\nceffary to make ufe of yeaft only once; the\ngrounds fermented the liquor afterwards, and\nthey were inclined to think that when yeaft\ncannot be had, a little leaven would anfwer\nas a fubftitute. This beer was conftantly\ndrank by fuch of the failors as were afflifted\n(W with 46\"\nA VOtAGE TO l&E\nma\nI\nwith thefcurvy, and they found great benefit\nfrom it; fo that in addition to its being very\nufefulas common drink, they found it a moft\nexcellent antifcorbutic. Having fuGceeded fo\nwrell in brewing the fweet root, they tried\nfugar-cane by the fame method, and made a\ngood wholfome drink from it, though much\ninferior to the other. They flood to the\nNorth North Weft along the weft fide of\nOneehow, which form feveral fine bays,\nthat feem to afford good fhelter and anchor\nrage: at ten o'clock their worthy friend\nAbbenooe took his leave of them, and all\nthe canoes left them; on which occafioh\nthey hoifted their colours and fired ten guns^\nby way of taking leave of this friendly little\nifland; and from this time to the 16th of\nJuly, was fpent in their paffage to the coaft\nof America, which was feen extending frofri\nNorth Eaft to Weft by North, diftant from\nthe neareft land about twelve leagues. On\nthe 19th, they were greatly furprifed to hear\nthe report of a gun, which they anfwered; but\nit not being anfwered again, they fired a fe-\ncond, when another was immediately fired\nfrom the fhore: it was now evident that\n%s NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\nfome other nation had got to this place before them, which was a great mortification\nto them: (bon after they perceived a boat\nrowing out towards the (hips, on which\nthey tacked and (lood for fhore, in order to\nmeet her. By feven o'clock they got on\nboard, and were found to be Ruffians. Having no one on board who underftood\ntheir language, the information they got\nwas but little; they found they came from\nKodiac, and proceeded to Cook's River in\nboats. The harbour which they intended\nto make* the Ruffians informed them was a\nvery good one, and they offered to take a\nperfon in their boat to examine it. Their\noffer was accepted, and Mr. McLeod was\nfent along with them to examine the harbour,,\nand (bund the entrance, there being: fome\nrocks near it. The Ruffians left them about\nhalf paft eight o'clock, and immediately afterwards, they came to anchor in thirty-five\nfathoms water, over a bottom of coariefand\nand (hells.. At four o'clock in the morning1\nof the 20th, Mr. McLeod returned, and informed them, that the harbour was a very\ngood one, and that there was a fafe paffage\ninto 48\nVOYAGE\nTO THE\nI\ninto it on either fide of the ft&all Ifland at\nthe entrance. After examining the harbour,\nhe landed on a beach juft without the South\nentrance of it, where the Ruffians had taken\nup their abode. It feems they only continue\nhere during the Summer feafon, as they had\nnothing more than tents, covered over with\ncanvafs or fkins. He obferved but few fea-\notter fkins amongft them, and thefe appeared moftly green, as if they had been recently taken from the animal. The party confided of twenty-five men: they had alfo a\nnumber-of Indians alcpg with them, who\nhad fkin canoes, and feemed to be on the\nmoft friendly terms with the Ruffians;\nwhich inclined them to think they were not\nnatives of that place, but brought from\nKodiac or Oonalafka, for the purpofe of\nhunting, efpecially as Mr. McLeod could not\nperceive an Indian habitation near the Ruffian fettlement. The Ruffian Chief brought\nthem a prefent of a quantity of fine falmon,\nfufficient to ferve both fhips for one day;\nfor which they gave him fome yams, with\ndireflions how to drefs them; fome beef,\npork, and a few bottles of brandy. He\nmade NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\n49\nmade his acknowledgements in th6 beft mariner he was able, and went on fhore perfectly\nWell pleafed with his reception. Thefe people, quite contrary to Ruffian cuftom, were\nparticularly careful not to get intoxicated;\nbut they had reafon to think, it proceeded from a fear of being furprifed by the In*-\ndiansj for they obferved them to be con-\nftantly on their, guard, with their arms always ready; and that no man'flept without\na rifle barrell'd piece under his arm, and his\ncutlafs* and a long knife by his fide. They\nnow began to be in want of food, and the\ncrews flood in need of fome exercife on fhore,\nwhich induced the Captains to get into the\nadjacent harbour, and more particularly as\nthere was not the leaft appearance of any1\ninhabitants near it* fo that their bufi^\nnefs could be carried on without danger\nor moleftation; another reafon for doing (b^\nWas to try to find out how long the Ruffians\nhad been there, and how long they intended\nto (lay: alfo to know where their (loops lay,\nas they had none in Cook's River: likewife\nto enquife in what manner they procured\ntheir furs, whether by bartering with the In-\nE dians. 9 f\n/\nCO\nA VOYAGE TO TEfe\ndians, or killing the aniimls themfeivesk\nBy eleven o'clock on the 2o*hrthey anchored\nin eleven fathoms water, well into the har-^\nhour, over a bottom1-of Hack muddy fand.\nCaptain PoEtlock,- early in the morning of\nthe 21 ft, went on (hore in fearch of a convenient place for wooding and warring the\"\nlhAp&; both of which, he found to his fatis-\nfa&ion.very convenient. None of the natives\nhad yet made their appearance^ but as the\nRuffians were conftantly on their guard for\nfear of being furprifed by the Amerkansy\nthey judged it prudent to be the fame; and\naccordingly fent a cheft with arms along\"\nwith? the parties on fhqre. In the afternoon,\nthe feine was hauled at the head of the bay\nwhere they lay, but with lifctle fucc^fe, o&ly\na few colefifh being cai^jht. Whilft t&ey\nwere doing this,* the Ruffian Chief paid them\na vifit, #nd informed them th&t the place,\nwhere they hauled the feine was not ft&ckect\n^ith fifliy but that near his refideifce plenty\nmight be eiught: tfoty accordingly, tGtfkJfshe\nfgine thither, and in feveral hauls caught-\nabout thirty falmon, and a few flat fifli*\nThis indifferent fuccefs, as their friend the\n' ::m&', :\u00C2\u00A5''.i I I'M Ruf-\nt\nif NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\nft\niian informed them, was owing to the time\nof tidSfe, b&ng then low water; whenrlhe befb\ntime for hauling the feine was at high water. However, he informed them that if\nthey would lea^e the feine all irfght, and a\njfrian along with it> ifcey would have plenty\nof fifh ti&e next morning. They embraced\nthe offer- with pleafilre, and left one of the\nfailors, who had fome trifling knowledge of\nffie Ruffian language. The Ruffian fettle-\nment was fituated on a pleafant piece of flat\nground, about three miles in length, and\nabout two hundf&l yards over, bound by a\ngood fandy be^th on one fide, and a fmall\nlake of ffefh water, which empties into the\nfta, on the other: in this lake they catch\nplenty of fine falmon : the beach terminates\nat ea&iv e$d in high points of land, wfech\nform a fnug bay, .where fmall craft might\nHe vitffi great (afety. The Ruffians were\ntwenty^five in number, exclufive of the Indians, which they now found were brought\nfrom Kocpac and Oonalafka. They had two\n(kin boats, each calculated to row twelve\noars, and the thwarts were double banked.\nHe underfto^d thd&the Chief and the In-\na dians. if*\nA voyage to th\u00C2\u00A3\ndians, took up their abode in a fmall tent\ncovered with canvas, and the remainder flept\nunder the two boatsjuft mentioned. Amongft\nthe party were three Indian women: they\nhave no bread, their diet chiefly confifts of\nfifh, and a mefs made of the root of a\nplant; they bacl alfo fome very good tea.\nThey foon perceived that they procured no\nfurs by barter with the Americans, and that\nth^ got no fea-otter fkins, nor indeed furs>\nof any kind: but what the Kodiac Indians\ncaught in hunting. During their flay\namong the Ruffians they were all very b$|ily\nemployed, fomejdreffing green lea-qtter\n(kins, others repairing their boats and\ncleaning arms: moft of the Indians were out\non a hunting party, the few that were left,\nwere bufied in letting darts to their fpears,\nmaking fhufif from tobacco, of which\nthey feem very fond, and their women in\ncooking. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2, It was very evident they were\nunder great apprehenfion from the American Indians; indeed the Chief gave them to\nunderftand, that they had attempted to fur-\nprize them feveral times, that they were a\nfet of favage, cruel people, tyut fpoke much\nin NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\n55\nm favour of the Kodiac and Oonalafka In\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0dians.\nAt feven o'clock on the 22d, the whale-\nboat was fent on (hore to the Ruffian fettle-\nment, to learn what fuccefs they had had\nwith the feine: the boat returned about\nnine o'clock, deeply laden with fine falmon,\npart of which was fent on board the Queen\nCharlotte. After this, they weighed and (lood\nfurther up Cook's River, but with faint\nhopes of fuccefs, being apprehenfive the\nRuffians had drove the Indians away from\nthe place. Soon after, they anchored, and\nfwo fmall canoes came off from the fhore,\nnearly a-breaft of the (hip, and went along-\nfide the Queen Charlotte: they had nothing\nto barter, except a few dried falmon, which\nCaptain Dixon purchafed for beads, and al-\nfo made them a few prefents, in order to\nconvince them that their intentions were\nfrkiidly, and that they^yifhed to trade with\nthem in a peaceable manner,. They feemed\nto comprehend Captain Dixon's meaning,\nand promifed to bring furs tfag following\nday. Aboijt feyen o'clock the ne*t day,\n'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 . E 3 < '\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0''\" they L\nA VOYAGE TO THB\nPfe\n8r\n\u00C2\u00BB\nthey had the fatisfaclionrif feeing two large,\nand feveral fmall canoes pufhing off froriif\nthe fhore: the large ones containing about\ntwenty perfons, an#the i$riallsr but one or\ntwo; when ati fefti^Jiftanfe they J$ti\u00C2\u00A7ied in a\n(hng, whijgfe was continued for q, c@nfiderar\nble length of time^' and afterwards came\nalong-ftdg, extending their ffms, as a toki^'\nof tbgir pacific intentions, and many of\nthem held up green pljajtts, probably^for the\nfeme motive: moft of them h#d their faces\ndaubed with red oker and black lead, which\nhad a very difgufting appearance ^thgir nofes\nand. ears were in general ornamented with\nfmall blue beads or teeth, and tbfey had 3\nflit cut in the under lip, in a fine parallel\nwith the mouth, which was addJSned in 3\nfimilar manner. They procured from this\nparty near twenty fea^tter (feiins, and a\nfew cloaks of the. earlefs mammot fkins,\nneatly fewed together.: jfchey traded in a fair\nand open manner, andiiwere:very importU4\nnalse with them to got on fhore. . They irir\ntreated one of ;|Jlem,.:^a appeared to be a\nChief, to go on board, which he declined,\nynlefs they would let a fisilor go in the car\nnoe $J0:RTH-WE$T COAST OF AMERICA.\n55\ncioe as an hoftage; but whilft they were\ntalking to him another of his companions\nventured on board, and prefently afterwards\n$he Chief and feveral others followed his example : but to convince them that they were\nperfectly fafe, they fent one of their people\ninto the canoe. A$|er flaying fome time on\n'board, and gratifying their curiofity witti\nlooking at the veffel, they left them and paddled on fhore, feemingly well fatisfied with\ntheir reception. From this favourafele beginning, they were inclined to think they\ncould not change for a better fituation;\ntherefore \u00E2\u0080\u00A2determined to keep il a Ifew days.\nOn the 30th they were vifited by feveral\ncanoes, from whom they purchafed fome\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2good fea-otter (kins, together with feveral\nmarmot clocks, racoons, and foxes; they\nalfo brought plenty of frefli falmon, w hich\nwere obtained for beads and buttons. Their\ntraffic for fome days continued in the fame\n(late, and the behaviour of the natives was\nvery quiet and peaceable; however, according to Indian cuftom, they made no fcruple\nof thieving, and fome of them that were on\nE 4 board\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Mi\n-\"*.-- - J.6\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nboard the King George on the 3d of Auguft?\ngave a fpecimen of their talents in that line,\nby flealing the hooks from a block-ftrap,\nand a grjndftqne handle, which being made\nof iron, was no doubt a prize : they did not\nthink it prudent to ufe violence with them\nupon thefe trifling depredations, but contented themfelves by giving a better look out\nfor the future. | An elderly Chief went on\n\"jboard the Queen Charlotte, from whom\nCaptain Dixon learned fome information\nrefpefting the Ruffians. He clearly underr\n(lood from the old man's pointing to the\nguns, and defcribing the explqfion|^they\nmade, as well as from other circumftances,\nthat there had lately been a battle between\nthe Ruffians and the Natives, in which the\nRuffians had t>een worded: the Chief at the\nfame time intimated, that he would not\nquarrel with us on th$t account, as he was\ncertain we belonged to another nation, from\nthe difference of our drefs. How the quarrel originated they could not learn, but moft\nprobably it was occafioned by theft. The\nIndians in leaving the fhip, gave them to\nunderftand that the neighbourhood was\ndrained NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA,\n57\ndrained of furs, but that they would go t&\nprocure more in the adjacent country.\nAuguft the 5th, in the morning, one large\ncanoe and feveral fmall ones came along-\nfide, bringing four good fea-otter fkins, a few\nmartins, racoons, and foxes, and plenty of\nfine falmon. The large canoe had been ab-\nfent two days to trade for furs in various\nparts of the river, and the people now gave\n^hem to underftandthat the adjoining country were entirely drained of furs, and that\nthey could not procure any more. One of\nthe Indians had on a very good nankeen\nfrock; and another a blue frock, which they\nwanted to fell: feveral of them had a number of fipall blue glafs beads, which they\nfeemed jsery fond of, but the frocks were held\nin very little eftimation. Thefe articles muft\ndoubtlefs have been procured from the Ruffians previous to their quarrel, and foon after\nthey came into the river, they were inclined\nto believe the information we obtained from\ntheir vifitors refpe6ling the fcarcity of furs in\nKfhis part, as they had obferved for fome days\n$|paft the canoes came from different quarters,\nand \m\nA VOYAGE TO THE\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 I\nand the few fkins they brpught were very indifferent ; they therefore determined to -q-uk\nCook's River the firft opportunity, and proceed to Prince William's Sound, where they\nexpedted a good fiapply of thefe valuable\nfurs. The land about this place is prettily\ndiverfified with vallies, and gently riling\ngrounds, which; in general is clothed with\npines and flirubs ; many of the vales have\njfrnaJl rivers of water which difcharge t&em-\nielves into the fea, and in one of them were\nfeveral houfes, and fome ftages on which\nthe natives dry their falmon: fhefe con-\nCrafted wvery proud; and his countrymen beheld 6o\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nheld him with fuch a mixture of admiration\nand envy, that they queftioned whether he\nwould be able to keep it long in his poffef-\nfion. They alfo diftributed a few trifles'\namongft the other Indians, and they returned\non fhore perfectly fatisfied, though they did\n'not meet with fuccefs in.their embafly. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0&\nThe fhips now left Cook's River, and from\nthe ioth of Auguft to the 23d of September, were kept beating about the coaft without being able to get into any harbour.\nWhen they were off King George's Sound\nthis day, about two o'clock, they perceived a\ncanoe coming off from fhore: they fhortened\nfail and brought to, for her to come up*\nShe had two Indians in her, but neither of\nthem could be prevailed upon to go into the\n(hip. They had fome fifh which were\nbought, and a few trifling prefents were made\nthem ; after which they left the fhip, and\npaddled for that part of the coaft which lays\nbetwixt Woody Point and King George's\nSound. At five o'clock, the North point of\nthe entrance into King George's Sound bore\n73 deg. Eaft; the breakers that lie off that\nfif*-''' If ;i\u00C2\u00A7 ' \"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \"H \" ' - point NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA*\n61\npoint Eaft, half North, three leagues diftant.\nFrom this time to the 28th, they were kept\nbeating off and on, trying to get into King\nGeorge's Sound, without effecl, when they\nwere obliged to finally bear away for Sandwich Iflands.\nCHAP- A V&VAGE TO THIS\nCHAPTER Vi\nArrive at Owhyhee.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Refrefhments Stained.-**\nNatives propenfity to Theft.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Plan of future\nProceedings.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Leave Owhyhee and anchor at\nWhahoa.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Vifted by Taheeterre.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Pernicious\nEffect of the Tava Root.\u00E2\u0080\u0094An Eatooa ereSi-\ned.\u00E2\u0080\u0094ChiPfs make Offerings to their Gods.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nMeditate an Attack on the Ships.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Shewn\nthe EffeSl of Fire Arms.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Indians embark\nfor Atooi.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Take leave of Taheeterre.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The\nold Prieft.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Anchor in Wymoa Bay, Atooi.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094An Excurfion on Shore.\n*N the 16th of November they arrived off\nOwhyhee, where feveral canoes came off to\nthem with a few fmall fifh, the fea running\nfo high that the natives could bring off nothing elfe* When night arrived, they perceived fires lighted in different parts of the\ncountry. The next morning, being notmore\nthan 4 miles from fhore, a number of canoes\n-$S^ .-IT-. \"''. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 .!\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 : were ftOfrTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\n63\nwere prepared to follow them. The adja-*\ncent country is very pleafant, and there appeared feveral villages fituated affjidft fine\ngroves of cocoa-nut trees* As they run\nalong the fhore, the natives of both fexes\nwere affembled on the beach in great numbers, waving pieces of their white cloth as a\ntoken of thair peace and friendfhip. .They\nprefently came off with the different productions of the ifland, fuch as hogs, breadfruit, taro, cocoa-nuts, plantains, fowls and\ngeefe of a wild fpecies, with plenty of fait.\nTheir trade went (b brilkly forward, that in\na very fhort time they purchafed hogs fufficient to fill feven tierces, befides great numbers of a fmaller fort for prefent ufe, and\nnear two tons of vegetables; fb plen&fully\ndid the natives fupply them, that they were\nunder a neeeffity of turning fome away that\nwere brought, The Indians all the time\ntraded very fairly; but fome of the fpefla-\ntors, of whom they had great numbers of\nboth fexes, (hewed their ufu-al propenfity to\nthieving. One man had dexterity enough in\nhis profeffion to (leal a boat hook out of} \u00C2\u00A3\nboat atong-fide, though there was a boat*\nkeeper A VOYAGE TO THE\nkeeper in her; and another crept up triS\nrudder chains, and dole the azimuth com-*\npals out of one of the cabin windows, and\ngot clear off with it, notwithftanding a per-\nfon was fet to look after them over the flern.\nMany other trifling articles were flolen in the\ncourfe of the day, which they did not wonder at, confidering the number of canoes\naround them, which was not lefs than 250,\nwhich contained more than 1000 people.\nWhen the trade was over, the natives in-\ntreated them to flay near the land, and in the\nmorning they would bring us plenty of fine\nhogs. On a promife being made them, they\npaddled on fhore, leaving them in a moft\nfriendly manner; and, the next day they\npurchafed very fine ones upon their ufual\nterms.\ni'1\n< On the 19th of November, the Captain\nconfulted refpefting their future proceedings*\nhaving now pretty well drained Owhyhee,\nby purchafing all the trade they had brought.\nThe fhips were very light from having fuch\na quantity of water expended, and their rigging flood much in need of repairing and\n|\u00C2\u00A3 . over-hauling $ to\nm\nNORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 65\nover-hauling; fo that they concluded it beft\nto quit their prefent fituation and proceed\nfor King George's Bay, Whahoa, where they\ncoljdd lie well (htfltered from the prevailing\nwinds, and do every thing neceffkry both for\nthe hulls and the rigging of the fhip&>ftln\ntheir paffage froth Owhyhee to Whahoa, a\nlittle before dark on the 19th of November,\nthey faw a canoe to the South-Weft making\nafter them, wit\u00C2\u00BB & fmall mat up for a fail,\nand paddling very hard. On this they\nbrought to, and picked her up. There were\nfour men in the3 canoe, befides a quantity of\nprovisions. ; It feems they belonged to thd\nIfland-of Mowee,-#nd on their ftandihg in for\nthe Eaft point of it, had put off with their\nlittle cargo, hoping to make a good market\nof it; but upon the (hip's bearing away\nfrom the ifland, they found the weather fo\nbad, with a ftrong wind dire6lly againft\nthem, that they could not reach the fhore,\ntherefore bore away after them> fet their little\nfail, and ufed every effort in their powe\u00C2\u00A3 to\nget up with the (hip.f They were greatljjf\npleaftd to have it in their power tfrfave therif}\nfor in a little time they muft all have pe-\nKfi i WW? riftied. 66\nA VOYAGE TO THE'\nII\nrifhed. Their canoe, when they came along-*\nfide, was almoft full of water, and themfelves\nfo much fpent with fatigue, that they were\nobliged to help them up the (hip's fide. All\ntheir things were got into the (hip, the canoe\nhauled in upon deck, and every method in\ntheir power made ufe of to recover them,\nwhich had the wifhed-for good effect; and\nnever were tnen more grateful than thefe\npoor Indians, for the little favours they we|\u00C2\u00A7\nfb happy in fhewing thermit- iS him\n^On the 22d, being off Mowee, a number\nof large and fmall canoes ca\u00C2\u00ABne alongffide,\nwith the vari$u\u00C2\u00A3 produce of the ifland,bi8(j|\n(T\n: On the 23d, it being nearly calm* the Indians that they picked ijp at fea, took this\nopportunity of going on fhore. They endeavoured to prevail on them to (lay till next\nmorning,, that they might have an opportunity of (landing clofe in fhore, when tfefj\u00C2\u00A3\nmight havdk gone, with greater fafety; but\nthey choig to go this time, and made light\nof the diftanee, though not lefs than five\nleagues. Thefe poor fellows did not go\naway jNORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\naway empty-handed, for befides the prefents\nthey had from the Captain, almoft every\nperfon on board gave them fome little token\nof friendfhip, fo that their misfortune turned\nout to great advantage.\nOn the 30th, they anchored in King\nGeorge's Bay. A few canoes came along-fide\nimmediately afterwards, but brought little\nwith them : they were given to underftand,\nthat water was wanted, and was defired to\nbe fupplied in the fame manner as formerly,\nwhich they would have been very glad to have\ncomplied with; but they informed them, that\nboth water and every thing elfe was taboo'd\nby the King's order. Finding things in this\nfituation, they gave to a man who appeared\nto be of the moft confequence amongft them,\na prefent for the King, and another for the\nold Pried, requefting him at the fame time\nto inform the King, that they were in want\nof water, and|(iich refrefhments as the\nifland afforded, and therefore, fhould be\nglad if he would immediately take off the taboo, that they might obtain a fupply of\nthefe articles. Ac fun-fet the natives left\nF a the jm\n68\nA VOYAGE tO THE\nI\nthe (hip, and went on fhore. Early\nnext morning, they had fqme canoes along-\nfide, Jtwho brought them water and a few\nvegetables, notwithftanding the taboo. Sp4on\nafter a large quantity of canoes came round\nPoint Dick into the bay, and landed at\nthe^head of it: prefen^ly their old friend\nthe| Pried paid them a vifi^ and came, according to cuftom, in a large double canoe decorated with branches of the cocoa-nut tree.\nAfter paddling round the fhip with great fa-\nlemnity^ and running down every fmall canoe that, came in his vvay, he came, alpng-\nfide; bxx% before he ejitered the fhjpi. he en-\nquijred fgr Capt. Portjock, on %hofip appearance he handed up a fmall pigj w^ich\n^t his coming on board w^s prefented to tf^r;\nCaptain, as a token of peace and friendfl^p*\nThis,has been obferved to be the^ufuaLjprac-\ntice at all thefe iflands. The old man in-\nforme^them that the King, who had juft arrived in th^ bay with a large fleet of cap$es,\nwould be on board to pay them a vifit^j and\nupon his returning again on fhore, the taboo\nwould be taken off, and the natives at liber-\nty to bring them every thing the iflajid afforded.\n. O*)**.-;^!- NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\nforded. They made him a prefent, and\nlikewife gave him one for the King, which\nthey defired he would carry on fhore and deliver with his own hand. The Prieft left\nthem about ten o'clock, arid returned about\neleven in his own canoe, accompanied by\nmany others, both large and fmall; in a\nvery large canoe paddled by 16 flout men,\nwas the King himfelf, attended by many of\nthe principal Chiefs. When his canoe came\nnear the fhip, all the reft paddled at fome\ndiftanee, to make room for his Majefty, who,\nafter paddling three times round the fhip\nwith great flate, entered on board without\nthe leaft appearance of fear, and would not\nfuffer any of his attendance to follow him,\nfill he had got permiflion for their admittance, which was given to eight or ten\nprincipal Chiefs. The King brought them\na few hogs, and fome vegetables by way of\na prefent, for whidi he received a prefent,\nwhich highly pleafed him: many of the\nChiefs likewife Brought trifling prefents,\nfor which they received fuitable returns, being defirous to keep themfelves oh a friendly\nfooting at this ifland. J\nF i The m\nJQ\nA VOYAGE TO THE\n11;\nIf I\nS; The King, whole name is Taheeterre, is\nan exceeding flout well made man, about\nfifty years old; appears to be fenfible an4\nwell difpofed, and is much efteemed by his\nfubjetls: he inquired whether they had been at\nOwhyhee, and on being anfwered in the affirmative, he was very defirous of learning\nfome particulars refpefting that ifland, and\nthe King, with whom hefeemed to be at variance: but they could give him no information, but that the King was in good health,\nand the ifland in a very flourifhing condition,\nTaheeterre remained on board the greateft\npart of the day, and gave the natives directions to bring us plenty of water, and every\nthing elfe the ifland afforded: towards evening he returned on fhore, perfectly fatisfied\nwith his reception, and the prefents that\nwere made him. They foon began to feel the\ngood effe6lsof Taheeterre's vifit, the natives,\nnow no longer under the influence of the\ntaboo, brought them plenty of water, and they\nprocured a good fupply of hogs and vegetables, fo that a party was employed in faking\npork' for fea (lore. S^lr- i- '\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'. Jpl NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\nOn the 3d of December, Taheeterre paid\nthein another vifit in much the fame manner\nas before^ great numbers of canoes were\nabout the (hips, anjd multitudes of both\nfexes playing in the water, notwithftanding\ntheir diftanee from the (hore, which was\nnot lefs than two miles^ Their old friend\nthe Pried was almoft conftantly on board,\nand, according tocuftom, drank vaft quantities of yava, which kept him in a moft\nwretched condition; he feemed quite debilitated, and his body was entirely covered\nwith a kind of leprous fcyrf. The old man\nhad generally two attendants with him, to\nchew the yava-root for him, and he found\nthem fo mjuch employment that their jaws\nwere frequently tired, and he was obliged to\nhire fome of the people in the canoes to chew\nfor him, at a bead for a mouthful. One of\nthe yava chewers, a very intelligent fellow,\ninformed them that to the weftward of Point\nRofe, in Queeij Charlotte's Bay, there was\nan exceeding fnug harbour, where the fhips\nmight lay with fafety. As they had a heavy\nfyvejl fetting into the Bay, round Point\nDick, which catjfpd the fhip to roll very\nF 4 much, 7\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nmuch, they determined to fend the long-boat\ndown to examine it, and if found a fafe fi-\ntuatipn, to remove the fhip thither, The\n$$flri6l where the harbour lies is cmled by\nthe natives Whyteetee, and the yava chewer,\nwho was found to be a man of fome pro-*\nperty, offered himfelf j&\u00C2\u00A7 a pilot, which was\nreadily accepted, -' : ' \" 'W1 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nOn the 4th they received another vifit frbm\nhis Majefty, and in addition to his ufual\nprefent, he brought a l^ge quantity of fine\nmullet, which he told them were caught in a\nfmall lake at the head of the Bay. He frequently eat with them, but could never be\nperfuaded to tafle either wine or fpirits; nor\ndid he even ufe the yava, but always drank\nwater. He feemed greatly delighted with\nthe attention paid him ; indeed his vifittffeem\nto have been no ways unacceptable, for he\nnot only encouraged the natives to bring\nthem freely water and other neceffaries, but\nat the fame time kept them in good order.\nThis afternoon their water was compleated,\nhaving in the fpace of three days filled forty\nbutts, befides a numHer of puncheons and\n<; \u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\" : * \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \"S|> v \u00C2\u00A7.^ brandy NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 73\nbrandy pieces; fo eager did the natives pur-\nfile this profitable trade. They now began\nto want fuel, and no fooner was it mentioned\nthan the natives brought them a plentiful\nfupply, for nails and buttons. Numbers of\n(harks were caught, and after taking out\ntheir livers, they were given to the natives,\nwho confidered them as very acceptable,pre-\nfents; particularly the old Pried, who got\ntwo, and having got them lafh'd to his canoe,\nwas going to fend them on fhore, when the\nfollowing odd accident happened: One of\nthe fharks not being properly fecured, fell\nout of the canoe, and funk to the bottom\nin eleven-fathom water; at the fame, time\nthere was feveral large hungry ones fwim-\nming about, yet an Indian went down with\na rope, flung the dead fhark, and afterwards\nhauled him into his canoe, without any apparent fear of the others that furrounded\nhim. They fottnd the fharks were efteemed\nvaluable, as they anfwer a variety of pur-\npofes ; they eat the flefli, the fkin ferves for\ncover to their drum heads, and the teeth they\nfix in wooden inftruments which they ufe as\nknives. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 * \"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ^: \"% ''\n- ';\u00E2\u0080\u00A2# The *7 A\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nThe natives continued to bring them\nplenty of every thing, and great numbers\nvifited the fhip to gratify their curiofity:\nthofe who had no canoes would fwim from\nthe fhore, though two miles diflant; and\nafter daying all day in the water, fwim away\nfor the fhore with as much compofure as if\nthey had only a few yards to go,\ni\njl .The old Pried continued his vifits, fome-\ntimes going on fhore, under pretence of paying a morning vifit to his Majedy; but it\nwas foon found his principal motive was to\nreplenifh his flock of yava, of which, as\nhas already been obferved, he confumed a\ngreat quantity. He now began to appear\nvery redlefs and uneafy; on the Captain's\ninquiring into the caufe, he hinted that Taheeterre and his principal warriors were me-*\nditating fome mifchief againd the fhips; and\ntaking them upon deck, pointed to a large\nhoufe on the top of a hill. This houfe, he\nallured them, was building for an Eatooa, or\nGod's Houfe, wherein they were going to\nmake great offerings to their different J\u00C2\u00A3a-\ntooas, and to cOnfult them on the event of\naU NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 75\n$n attack on the fhips, which they were determined on, provided they met with encouragement from their Oracles. He appeared\nquite difpleafed with the King's conduft on\nthisoccauon, and defired they would be con-\ndantly on their guard againd him. Though\nthis piece of information feemed rather improbable, yet they thought it prudent to be\non their guard to prevent a furprize; and at\nthe fame time ordered a condant watch to be\nkept on the cables, sto prevent their being\ncut by the natives. They had obferved the\nnatives building this houfe a day or two before the Pried pointed it out to them, and\nhad feen people going up towards it, loaded,\nprobably with offerings to their different Deities. Towards noon, they obferved with their\nglaffes that the houfe was nearly finifhed,\n2nd the natives were covering it with red\ncloth. As they had conflantly treated the\nKing and his attendants with great kindnefs,\nthey could fcarcely give any credit to the old\nPried, although the hopes of pofleffing all\nthe iron they had on board might probably\ntempt then* to the attack. At any rate, they\ndetermined to admit Taheeterre on board as\nufual, 70\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nufual whenever he came, and to regulate\ntheir conducl by his behaviour. \ \" '\"'\ni\nU\nTowards noon the next day, the King came\noff in a large double canoe, attended by a\nnumber of his principal Chiefs, all of whom\nwere admitted on board, and treated with\nthe ufual freedom; but they kept well provided for an attack, had one been attempted;\nhaving all the loop-holes in the combings of\nthe hatches fore and aft opened, and ten or\ntwelve dand of arms below under the direction of proper people, who would very foon\nhave cleared the decks if the Indians had offered them any violence: befides which, cen-\ntinels were placed in different parts of the\nfhip, and all their great guns and fwivels\nwere pointed into the canoes along-fide,\nwith lighted matches at hand. Taheeterre\ncould not help obferving their fituation, and\nfpoke of it to his attendants; notwithdanding\nwhich, he obferved his ufual manner. After\nbeing on board fome time, he was very defi-\nrous to fee theeffefts of their fire-arms, which\nCaptain Portlock fhewed him, by difcharging\na pHtol loaded with ball at a hog that flood\nat NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. jf\nat fome diftanee, and killed it on the fpot.\nThe King and his attendants were flartled at\nthe report of the piftol; but when they few\ntj^e hog lie dead, and the blood running\nfrom the wound, they were both furprized\nand, terrified; and they had not the leaft\ndoubt but this fatal effefl of their fire-arms,\nmade a deep impreflion on their feelings,\nand prevented them from making the attack.\nThe King ftdicl on board near two hours,\nand after receiving: a fmall prefent, took his\nleave, informing them at the fame time that\nhe intended leaving the bay, and returning to\nhis refidence at Whyteetee, in the eveiung.\nThey could not help remarking, that immediately $fler the King left the fhip, all the\ncajxoes left thpm, an<^paddled to the fhore\nin diff^jpent parts of the bay $ bu|the grj\u00C2\u00A7|J:eft\nnumber pfj them landed in.the Eaftern part\nof it, where the King had a temporary refidence.\nSoon afterwards the old Prieft came on\nboard, not in a large double canoe as ufual,\nbut iny\u00C2\u00A3 fmall old cra^y one, tljf^wc^ild\n^arcely <$rry him, and appeared as if hejhad\ncome 78\nA VOYAGE TO THE\ncome off by flealth. The moment the old\nman got upon deck, he began to tell them that\nthe^King was a great rafcal, perfifted in his\nformer flory, and begged them to watch him\nnarrowly. After haranguing for a fhort\ntime, he left them and went on board the\nQueen Charlotte, where he fpent the remainder of the day. By this time their wooding\nbufinefs was compleated, having purchafed\na quantity fufficient for at leaft fix months\nf* * \"XT * 1 1 1\nconiumption. Next morning theiong boat\ncame back, and Mr. Hayward informed the\nCaptain, that the place where his guide con-\ndueled him, was a fmall bay clofe to a fandy\nbeach, where the natives generally landed with\ntheir canoes; but no place for a fhip to ride\nin with fafety. Adjoining to the beach, in a\nbeautiful valley, furrounded by fine groves of\ncocoa-nut trees and a delightful country,\nthere was a large town, where the Yava\nChewer informed them the King ufually*\nrefided; and the diftricl round it was called\nWhyteetee. f^ .f*c v ' >\";VIS| 'rilP '\nAccording to Mr. Hay ward's account,\nthere was very few canoes to be feen; neither\nm NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\nther did he fee any great number of inhabitants: fo that they reafonably concluded,\nthat moft of them were come into the bay,\nled either by bufmefs or curiofity. From\nthis time not a fingle native came near the\n(hips for two days, and their canoes were\nhauled out of fight; but they perceived great\nnumbers about the houfe at the top of the\nhill. By day-light of the 17th, the old\nPrieft came on board, and feemed quite enraged at the King's recent condu6l. He,informed them that the King and all his principal Chiefs had been making offerings to\ntheir Gods, and confuting them; but that\nthe Gods were good for nothing, and that\nthe King and his adherents were no better\nthan villains for intending to do them any\nmifchief, after the many prefents they had\nreceived from both fhips.,\u00C2\u00A7They thanked\nhim for his intelligence, and told him they\nihould be conftantly on their guard. For\nfome time Captain Portlock had been impori-\ntuned by the Yava Chewer, and a very fine\nyoung man of *the firft confequence in the\nailand, and a conftant companion of the\nKing's, to take; them along with him t$>\nAtooi. Ill\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A01\n80\nA VOYAGE TO THE\n1\nj i\nAtooi. But he never thought they were in\nearned till on the 17th, when the young\nChief, whofe name was Paapaaa, came on\nboard, and joined his intreaties with thofe\nof the Yava Chewer, in fo preflmg a manner, that he promifed to take them on board,\nand they returned on fhore to prepare them-\nfelves for the paflkge. The Yava Chewer\nbeing now as it were a gentlfeman paffenger,\nno longer confidered hjmfelf as afervant, but\ntook to drinking Yava heartiiy^and laid in a\nplentiful flock ofrjthat root. Towards th\u00C2\u00A3\nevening this day, the natives were obferved\nuncovering and pulling to pieces theiF new-\nbuilt houfe oiiithe hill, andabouteight o'clock\nfeveral large houfes were on fire along the\nfhore near the b^; but as no Indians were\non board, they did not know whether by accident or defign.\nin\nNext morning the old Pried came on\nboard, andaipon enquiring tiie caufe, he told\nthem they were houfes belonging to Gods\nwhom the Chiefs were difple&fediwith, therefore out of revenge they had burned Qods\nand houfes together. The^JLing paid them\nanother\n. 4# NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\nanother vifit, but he appearedIforiiwhat fhy^\nOn the Captain's taking notice of the. red\"\nhoufe on the top of the hlll?,nelappeared a\ngood deal confufea! and waving the conver-\nfation, began to talk about hislwp cotjntry-\nmen who were going ?w7th them to Atooi,\nHe feemed very much intereded in Paapaaa's\n. i /\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 i 1 S;3115 -AJQ -, '3X1 ro,.! j O (a ' i , i\nwelfare, and particularly requeued, them to\ntake care of him and treat him well; and if\nthey flopped at Atpo/, he begged that they\nwould leave hi mender the care'of Taaao,\nwho it feems is fcrothej to Taheeterre, and a\nrelation of Papaaafs. The two paflengers\nafkea them for a few trifle's to leave amongd\ntheir friends, which was granted them*. The\napjtaln iikewfjie made thlTKing a prefent, on\nwhich ne took his leave of them for the laft\ntime; and after taking a very affeclionate\none or his countrymen,\" he quitted the fhip\nand 'went on fhore:- the other canoes re-\nmained along-nde. to diipole or their car-\ngoes\ and a good fupply 6f hogs was purchafed,1 , which enroled mem to fet the falters\nto work again. They now began to get every\nthing ready for fear The old Prie.il was yet\noh board | butftowarcts noon; oh the' ioth of\nG December, H\nA Voyage to the\nDecember, he took his leave, and Captain\nPortlock made him a preient with which he\nwas highly pleafed.S He then went on board\nthe Queen Charlotte to take leave of Captain\nDi^pn, and toon after left the, fhips, and\nwith the other canoes paddled for fliore.- ^fc\nThey chanot cqme-tojanchor again till the\nwhich, feveral canoes came off, and thej|en\nquired for, th|e^King^ ari^ their old friend Abbenooe, whO|4mey were^opformed, were-with\nthe principal Chiefs at Apoonoo, ?a town in\nhere tlT\nthe \"North\" Eaft part^of therifl&n\nKing ufually reiides,; but.were informe\nKins and his retinue would fhortly be down\nOf <\u00C2\u00AB! \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nat Wymoa. Tjhe^natives in the mean time\nfupplied them,with eveivy thipg they could\nwifh for. The next day. Captain Portlock,\nattended.by hfs. two paffengers, went on\nfhpre with- an intention of walking ^round\nthe Weftern point of the ifland, m hopes, of\niindine a,weli-fheltere4\" pay for'the mipVte\nlie, fhore, he was\nreceived in a m6Jl friendly mannenby a vaft\nnumber of the inhabitants, and afterwards\nwere\n13\nVI\nB NORTH-WESl* COAST OF AMERICA.\nWere joined by fome people of confequence,\nwho offering to go' with them, their proffer\nwas accepted, and they were of great fervice\nin keeping the natives at a diftanee, though\nthey did not croud round them with any\nmifchievous intention; but on the contrary,\nto render them any little fervice in their\npower. After walking two or three miles\nalong the fhore, they fat down to take\na little refreshment. During their repaft, a\nChief named Tyaana, who they underftood\nwas brother to the King, joined them, and\nprefled the Captain very much to go back\nwith him to Wymoa, and eat with him\nthere. As he was very anxious to find out a\ngood bay for the fhips, he declined this\nfriendly offer, but promifed to call on him on\nhis return; on which he took his leave with\nmany profeflions of friendfhip, and they\ncontinued their walk along the fhore. &.\nBeing difappointed in his fearch for a harbour, they began to think of returning bac!&\nto the fhip; but after walking four or five\nmiles, they found it would be impracticable\nto reach Wymoa before night came on, and\nG a being rii\n84\nA Voyage to th\u00C2\u00A3\nbeing not far from a comfortable houfe belonging to Abbenooe, determined them to\ntake up their abode in it all night, being\nall greatly fatigued with their walk. They\narrived at the houfe about fun-fet, and one\nof Abbenooe's men, who had joined them in\nthe courfe of the afternoon, gave directions\nfor a hog and a dog to be immediately killed\nand drefled for their fuppers, together with\na large quantity of taro. The houfe was\nwell lighted up with torches made of green\nruflies, and at eight o'clock fupper being\nready, it was ferved up in great order, and. they\nfeemed to think few people ever eat heartier\nthan they did. Their friend's man afted as\nmafter of the ceremonies, and ferved the\nprovifioh to each perfon ; and after the feaft\nwas over, he ordered the remainder to be put\nby for their ufe in the morning before they\nleft the houfes which they did; and previous\nto their quitting the houfe, there were near\none hundred women about it, moftly with\nchildren in their arms. They were very\nanxious to know the Captain's name, which\nthey pronounced Popote; and fuch of the infants as could fpeak, were taught to call on\n' Popote. NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\n85\nPopot^. On this, he diftributed fome trifling prefents amongft them, to pleafe them.\nThey then walked to Wymoa, and reached\nthe fhore abreaft of the Queen Charlotte,\nabout nine o'clock. During the Captain's\nabfence they had carried on a brifk trade for\nprovifions, and the decks were covered with\nfine hogs fit for falting. $JL\n\\n03\nCHAP. /\n06\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nCHAPTER VL\nVariety of Refrefhments procured.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Vifited by\nthe King.\u00E2\u0080\u0094A large Shark caught.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Grateful Behaviour of Neeheowhooa.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Arrival at\nOneehow.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Leave Oneehow, and arrive at\nAtooi.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Remarkable Circumftance of a Woman with a Puppy at her Breajl.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Chief\nExercife with Spears.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Houfe built for\nCaptain Portlock.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Leave Atooi, and arrive\nat Oneehow.\u00E2\u0080\u0094An Attempt on the Life of an\nAtooi Chief,\u00E2\u0080\u0094Departure from Sandwich\nIflands.\nN the 25th, the 'Chief named Tyaana,\nwhom Captain Portlock met with on fhore,\ncame off in a large double canoe, and brought\nhim a prefent of fome hogs and vegetables,\nwhich was accepted, and a fuitable return\nmade. He informed them that the King\nand a number of the principal Chiefs would\nbe down in a day or two; and in the meantime,\nt:i NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 07\ntime, they fhould have whatever the place\nproduced. After many profeflions of friend-\nfhip, Tyaana took his leave and went on\nfhore. .This day the Captain.fenpiiis boat\nfox a feilor and the two Chiefs whom he\nhad left on fhone, after their excurfion there;\nhis man returned, but the two Chiefs chofe\nto remain on fhore a day or two longer\namongd their n&w friends, who were greatly\ncarefled bv the natives.\nOn the 28th, they obferved a great number of canoes come round the Eadern point\nof the bay ; and foon afterwards their good\nfriend Abbenooe came on board, but fo much\nreduced, and fo covered with a white fcurf\nfrom the immoderate ufe of the yava, that\nthey fcarcely knew him. He brought two\ncanoes loaded with different kinds of provi-\nfions, as a prefent for the two fhips. After\nflaying a fhort time with Captain Portlock,\nhe went on board the Queen Charlotte with\nthe prefent he intended for Captain Dixon,\nand ^returning again in the evening, took up\nhisbiodgings wife,Captain Portlock. The\nnext rday Abbenooe went on fhore, and pfg-\n'.a^^^py _ ,. , G 4 , fently t*\n88\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nII\nfently afterwards returned in company with\nTaaao and mod of the principal Chiefs belonging to the ifland^ His Majefly brought\na very handfome prefent^confiding of hogs,\ntaro, cocoa-nuts, and piaiitains, together\nwith cloths, mats, and fevecal elegant feathered cloaks; all which he infided on their\nreceiving: they were accordingly got info\nthe fhip, and an ample return was made\nhim. The two Chiefs who came with them\nbeing ftow on board, Captain Portlock took\nthis opportunity of introducing them to the\nKing, agreeable to Taheeterre's req;ued;\nprevious to which he gave them a few trifling articles, which they prefented to him,\nand were received with great affability and\nkindnefs; and he affured the Captain they\nfhould be under his immediate protection.\nAccording to the ideas they had entertained,\nthey found Abbenooe was a man highly\nefteemed by the King, who confulted him on\nevery occafion. Taaao appeared to be about\nforty-five years of age, ftout and well made,\nand feemed the bed difpofed man that they\nhad met among the iflands. He offered\nCaptain Portlock his friendftrip in the mod\nearned NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\n#9\nearned manner; and.aflured him he fliould\nbe fupplied with every thing this and the\nadjacent iflands afforded. He requeded\nAbbenooe to day on board, in* order to prevent any of the natives difpiiting with their\npeople. The King and his attendants daid^\non board about two hours, and gratified\ntheir curiolity by looking at different parts\nof the fhip, which they feemed greatly to admire. After taking leave, they went on\nboard the Queen Charlotte, where they flaid\na fhort time, and then returned on fhore.\nAbbenooe attended his Majefty, and then returned on board, where he ftaid all night;\nand as he condantly took up his abode with\nthem, they hung him up a cot in the cabin,\nwhich pleafed him fo much that he never\nflept out of it/ ( \"\"I\nOn the 7 id, the King naid them another\nvifit, accompanied by an elderly Chief, whofe\nname was Neeheowhooa, who they under-\ndood was uncle to the King, and a perfon of\nthe fird confequence. This old Chief, it\nfeems, in his time, had been one of the\ngreated warriors that Atooi, or any of the\niflands 9\u00C2\u00B0\nA VOYAGE TO THE\niflands could boad of, and has been greatly\nindrumental ij|f fettling them under their\nprefent>rKings, Taheeterre and Taaao: his\nbody was almod covered with fears, and he\nwas quite a cripple; and to add to his dif-\ntreffed fituation he had entirely lod an eye,\nand the other was in a very weak date, occasioned by fome wounds he had lately received in battle, and which was beyond their\nart to heal. Taaao appeared very unhappy on\naccount of his uncle's fituation; and per-r\nhaps thinking they could perform wonders,\nbegged of them to cure him. Captain\nPortlock recommended hitn to the care of his\nSurgeon, who waflied his wounds, applied\ndreffings to them, and gave him fome frefli\nones, which he was to make ufe of once a\nday. Neeheowhooa feemed perfectly to un-\nderdand the Surgeon's inftruclions, and pro-\nmifed to follow them in the moft punctual\nmanner. After remaining on board a few\nhours, Taaao and his uncle left them,\nhighly pleafed with the treatment they had\nreceived.\nThe\nnf\u00C2\u00BBv\u00C2\u00AB-\nIvA k.\nmorning,\nthough fine, very\nfew NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\n91\nfew canoes made their appearance. Upon\nafking Abbenooe the reafon, he informed\nfltiem that it was occafioned by a tabooara\nbeing laid on fyy the King, which it feems is\na kind of tax impofed upon the fubje&s by\nthe King, and confifts of a certain portion\nof their various produce. At Abbenooe's\nrequeft, Captain Portlock accompanied him\non fhore to fee the ceremony, which he\ncould not but admire; great order and\nregularity were obferved; men, women, and\neven children paid their contributions with\n\u00C2\u00A3hearfulnefs and good-will. Some brought\nhogs, others taro, bread-flruit, and indeed\nevery thing the ifland produced; all of\nwhich were placed in two feparate heaps.\nTaaao and moft of the principal Chiefs attended, to fee the tabooara was punctually\ncomplied with; and when it was finifhed,\nthe whole was divided into two parcels,\nwhich the King informed Captain Portlock,\nwas for the two fhips, and defired him to\nfend boats on fhore to take them off. He\nwas greatly pleafed with the King's method\nof proceeding, and dete#mii?aed he fhould not\n]be a lofer by his liberality, though he happened 9\n&\nA VOYAGE TO THE\npened to have nothing about him which h\nthought a fuitable return for fo noble a prefent, the magnitude of which aftonifhed him.\nAfter taking a very friendly leave, the King\nretired to a houfe fituated a little to the\nEaft ward of the River, where he refides when\nat this part of the ifland f and Captain Port-\nlock went off accompanied by Abbenooe, in\nhis large boat to the fhip. Next day the\nweather being tolerably fine, they fent the\nlong boat on fhore for more provifions, and\nCaptain Portlock, accompanied by his friend,\nfollowed in the whale boat. They landed\nabreaft of the village of Wymoa, and whilft\nthe people were getting the hogs, &c. in the\nJong boat, walked two or three miles up a\nvalley which leads from Wymoa towards\nthe mountains: this valley abounds with\ntaro, which is planted in trenches that contain about fix inches depth of water.\nThe taro grounds are divided at convenient\ndiflances by raifed foot-paths, which, as well\nas trenches, are made of ftone in a very regular manner, and muft have coft the natives\nan infinite deal of time and trouble. Abbenooe conducted Captain Portlock to a\nWki..< \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 S' \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 H' ; . large NORTH-WEST COAST.QE.AMERICA.\n93\nlarge new houfe belonging to himfelf, fi-\ntuated fome diftanee up the valley, and very\nwell built, after their manner: he there fat\ndown a little while,, and after taking fome\nrefrefhment, returned to Wymoa.\nIn the afternoon of the 4th of January,\nthey caught a fhark fo large that it was obliged to be hoifted out of the water by the tackle ^ it meafured thirteen feet and a half in\nlength, eight and a half in circumference, and\nthe liver fix feet; its mouth was fo large that\nit admitted the head of a puncheon with\neafe. On its being opened, there were found\nforty-eight young ones in her, each about\neight inches, long ; two entire turtles -weighing each fixty pound, befides feveral fmall pigs,\nand a large quantity of bones. The liver was\nkept for oil, and the fifli given to the.\nnatives, \ who confidered it an ineftimable\ntreafure. Taaao paid them another vifit,\nwhich he informed Captain Portlock \"was. his.\nfarewell vifit, as he intended to return to\nApoonoo, but that he fhould leave Abbenooe on board, who was to accompany them\ndown to Oneehow, which ifland and its .\nproduce, 94\nA VOYAGE TO T&E\nproduce, he preffed the Captain to accept of\nas a prefent, and defired Abbenooe to fee\nthat the natives fupplied them with plenty\nof every thing, without taking any thing\nfor it in return: he was this time accompanied by Taaevee his elded fon, a very fine\nboy about twelve years old. Captain Port-\nlock, after exprefling^himfelf in a suitable\nmanner, for the magnitude of the prefent\nmade him, had miilh to do to get leave for\nthe people of Oneehow to have fomething\ngiven them for their goods: but after fome\nlittle altercation, he got leave for them to\nbe paid for digging and bringing of the\nyams. After this affair was fettled to mutual\nfatisfa6lion, the Captain made the King and\nhis attendants fuch piefents as he thought\nfuitable to the generofity of his vifitors.\nAmongd the people of confequence, who\nattended Taaao oil his farewell vifit, was his\nuncle Neeheowhooa; his wounds were getting better, and he feemed quite at a lofs\nhow to exprefs his gratitude and thankful-\nnefs: he begged permiflion whild there? to\ncome on board every day to have them dref-\nfed, NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\nfed, and feemed to think they would foon\nbe healed. Aftenattending his nephew on\nfhore, he returned with a large double canoe full of hogs, for a prefent to the Surgeon:\nand Captain, as a token of-his gratitude:\nthe hogs were taken on board, but declined\naccepting them as a prefent, though it was\nwith great difficulty the old warrior could bel\nprevailed on to take any thing in exchange.\nHe was defired to go daily on board to have\nhis wounds drefled, which pleafed j him\nmuch, andj^e departed highly fatisfied with\nhis reception.\nOn the 7th, the King in a large double\ncanoe, attended by feveral others, fet off:\nfor Apoonoo, Abbenooe dill remaining onboard, who was found a very ufeful friend.\nThey then weighed anchor and made fail\nfor Oneehow, where they came to anchor in\nYam bay. The Captain accompanied by\nAbbenooe, took a walk on fhore, where he\nfound great part of the country poorly cid^\ntivated. Upon enquiring the reafon, Abbenooe told him, fince they took in their dock\nof yams, the people had in a great meafure\nnegle&ed ,\u00C2\u00BB\no6\nA voyage to the\nneglecled the ifland; barely planting enough\nfor their own ufe : and that fome had entirely Ileft the ifland, and taken up their future refidence at Atooi. In the evening\nthey returned on board.\n11\nOn the 20th, feveral of the people had\nleave to go on fhore, all of whom returned\nexcept three, who were in a very poor date\nof health, and whom the Captain thought\nof letting remain a few days on fhore, for\nthe benefit of their health. Abbenooe had\nprovided them a comfortable houfe, and ordered them to be fupplied by the natives\nwith every refrefhment they could get. Soon\nafter a heavy gale coming on, they were under the neceffity of cutting their cables, and\nrunning outtof the bay, being obliged to\nleave the three invalids on fhore. Abbenooe and feveral Indians were on board\nat that time, and went to fea with them.\nFrom: the 21ft to the 27th, they were\nkept beating off and on, about Oneehow\nand Atooi; fuch a heavy fea running that\nno canoe could come off to them, till this\nday, when a few ventured off from Yam Bay.\nOne* NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\n97\nOne of them called along-fide the long-boat,\n(which was fent into the bay on the 2 2d,\ninftant, to endeavour to get in the ends\nof the cables, and lie at anchor there till\nthe fhip arrived) with a letter from the\nOfficer, acquainting him that nothing could\nbe done: likewife arrived the three invalids, who had been kindly treated by the\nnatives while on fhore; who not feeing the\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 fhip fo foon as they expe\u00C2\u00A3led, fuppofed they\nwere gone to Wymoa Bay, and were prepar-\n. ing to fend them to Atooi juft at the time\nthe long-boat made her appearance in the\nbay. The Indians that were on board all this\ntime, began to be very defirous of getting on\nfhore, being perfeftly fick of their fea voyage.\nThe weather ftill continuing very ftormy^\nthey were under the neceflity of returning\nto Wymoa Bay, where the people had leave\nagain to go on fhore; Abbenooe at the fame\ntime attending them, to prevent any quarrels between the natives and them; and\nupon their returning*, the Captain found not\nfo much as a theft had been attempted, but\nevery luxury the ifland produced had beeii\ngiven them. *\nH A remark- 9s\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nII\nA remarkable circumftance related by Mr.\nGoulding, a volunteer in the fervice, fliews\nthe great regard the natives have for their\ndogs: In walking a confiderable way alone\nO O JO\nthe fhore, he met with an Indian and his\n'wife; fhe had two puppies, one at each\nbread:. . The oddity of the circumftance\ninduced him to purchafe one of them, which\nthe-woman could not, by all his perfuafions\nor temptations, be induced to part with;\nbut the light of fome nails had fuch powerful attraction upon the man, that he in lifted\nupon her parting with one of them. At\nlaft, with every fign of real forrow, fhe did,\ngiving: it at the fame time an affe&ionate\nembrace. Although he was at this time a\nconfiderable way from the fhip, the woman\n- would not part with him till they arrived\nwhere the boat was lying po take him on\nboard, and juft upon his quitting the beach,\n* fhe very earngftly intreated to have it once\nmore before they parted; upon his complying with which, fhe immediately placed it at\nthe breaft, and after fome time returned it\nto him.again. j|v - : ry^^p/--. >,'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2...- .\nII: ' : 1 I \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 I\" ft! \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 IllThl\n!'\nI' NORTH-WEST COAST OP AMERICA.\nThis day, at Captain Portlock's requeft]\ntwo Chiefs that were on board from Wymoa, exercifed with their fpears, The dexterity and aftonifliing expertnefs fhewn by\nthem, wonderfully furprized every one on\nboard. One of them, whofe name was\nNa-Maa-te'erae, that is blind of one eye, is a\nWell-made man, of about five feet fix inches\nhigh, his fkin much affected by his immoderate drinking of yava; and though he appears\nto be a perfon of very little property, is yet\nmuch refpefted, and his Company courted by\nall the principal men of the ifland^ which\nthey fuppofed, proceeds from his having beenj\nand flill is a great warrior. The lofs of his\neye he met with in battle, by a ftone flung\nfrom a fling; but this accident does not\nprevent him from being a moft expert warrior, his manner of exercifing giving them\nconvincing proofs to the contrary. He took\nhis ftand about three or four yards from the\ncabin door, unarmed; the other perfon\nflood about eight or ten yards from him*\nprovided with five fpears. Upon the fignal\nbeing given for commencing the action, a\nfpear was thrown with the utmoft force\nH a at Fl\nIOO\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nt>\nat Namaate'erae, which he avoided by a\nmotion of the body, and caught it, as it pafled\nhim, by the middle. With this fpear he\nparried the reft without the leaft apparent\nconcern. He then returned the fpear to his\nadverfary, and armed himfelf with a pahoa.\nThey were again thrown at him, and again\nparried with the fame eafe. One of the\nfpears ftruck a confiderable way into the\nbulk-head of the cabin, and the barbed part\nWas broke off in endeavouring to get it out.\nThe remarkable coolnefs he fhewed, at the\ntime the fpears were cad at him, proved at\nonce his courage and expertnefs. All who\nwere fpe&ators of the fight, fhuddered at the\ndanger he was expofed to, and were aflo-\nnifhed to fee with what eafe he parried every\nthing that was cad at him.\nThis day, the Captain and Abbenooe being on fhore, the Captain obferved in the\nvillage of Wymoa, about three hundred\nyards from the beach, a dring of four or five\nhoufes, tolerably large, in very good order,\nwithout inhabitants. On afking the reafon\nof their being taboo'd, he was informed that\nthey\na NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. IOI\nthey we're houfes built for the King, whenever he honoured Wymoa with a vifit, and\nthat no perfons whatever were allowed the\nufe of them in his abfence. Abbenooe like-\nwife informed him, that the King had given\nhim directions to build him a houfe on a\nclear fpot jud to the Wed ward of thefe\nhoufes, and that he brought him to that\nplace for him to point out a fituation to his\nown liking. For fome time he refufed accepting the favour; but upon his friend's\nearned entreaty, he at lad confented to gratify his generofity; and no fooner was his\nconfent made known, than workmen were\nimmediately employed. Some ran to fetch\nwood from the country, others a long kind\nof grafs to thatch it with, all of which was\nexecuted with the utmod difpatch and plea-\nfure, delighted with the idea of having their\nfriend Popote amongd them. Near the\nfpot fixed on, was a large flat done, on which\nthe Captain etched the initials of his name,\nthe country he ferved, and the year of our\nLord, which he explained to them as well as\nhe could; and as foon as they underdooil\nthe meaning of it, they were much pleafed,\nH 3 f and ..tf\n102\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nand the done was ordered to be placed in the\ncenter of the houfe. One great inconvenience attend their houfes; namely, their\nwant of windows: the extreme hot weather\nthey have fo much of, makes it very uncomfortable and clofe; but they feem to guard\nagaind any thine but the rains and cold.\nWhen they find it too warm, they go direftly\ninto the water to cool themfelves, it being a\nmatter of indifference to them whether night\nor day. He requeded of his friend, that in\nthe building of his houfe he might have windows in it, one at each end, one at each fide\nthe door, and one at the back, for the benefit of both light and air. It was ordered to\nbe done fo, and every thing being fettled to\ngeneral fatisfaflion refpecling the building,\nthey proceeded up the valley, attended by a\ngreat number of the natives, both young and\nold, who behaved withtheJgreated hofpitality\nand friendfliip, preffing him to go into every\nhoufe he came to, \"and partake of the bed\nfare in their power to give ; and numbers of\nthe women bringing him their children to\nbone\u00E2\u0080\u0094that is, falute them by touching nofes;\nJiis compliance with which gave them fingu-\nM ! NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. IO'l\nfer pleafure, and at the fame time gave him-\nfelfqas much* atHe was pleafed to fee fo\nmuch happinefs in the faces of hundreds of\nIndians, whom they had formerly fb much-\nreafon to think were a treacherous people.\n'This excurfion-gave him afrefh opportunity\nof obferving the amazing ingenuity and in-\ndudry of the natives, in laying out their\n\ taro and fuga^cane grounds, the greateft\npart of which alje made upon the banks of\nthe river, with exceeding good caufe-ways\nmade of banks,of earth, leading up the valley and to each plantation. The taro beds\nare in general about a quarter of a mile over,\ndammed in, and they have a place in one\npart of the bank which ferves as a gate-way.\nWhen the rains commence, which is in the\nWinter feafon, the river fwells with the torrents from the mountains, and overflows\ntheir taro beds; and when the rains are over,\nand the rivers decreafe, the dams are flopped\nup, and the water kept in to nourifh the\ntaro and fugar-cane. During the dry fea-\nfpn, the water in the beds is generally about\none foot and a half or two feet over a muddy\nbottom. The fugar-cane, generally in lefs\n4\nwater fi\n104\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nwater, grows very large and fine; and is a\ngreat article of food with the natives, particularly the lower clafs. The taro alfo\ngrows frequently as large as a man's head,\nand is efleemed the bed bread kind they\nhave: they frequently make a pudding of it,\nwhich they call poe, and keep till it becomes\na little four; and then they are remarkably\nfond of it, prefering it to any thing elfe. The\nIndians that were a little while at fea with the\nCaptain, almod fretted themfelves to death,\nwhen their dock of poe was gone; which\nwas very foon done, from the immoderate\nquantity they eat of it. The Captain has\nfeen Abbenooe eat near two quarts of it at\na meal, befides a quantify offifhor pork:\nwhild they were walking amongd thefe taro\nbeds, a number of the natives were in them,\ngathering it and fugar cane to fupply the\nfhips; they were up to their middle in\nwater.\nAfter gratifying his curiofity amongd the\nplantations, his friend accompanied him to\na large houfe, fituated under the hills on,\nthe Wed fide of the valley, and about two\nor NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. J05\nor three miles from the fea beach: he found\nthis houfe very large, commodious and\ncle#i, with a new mat on the floor. On\nthe left fide of the door was a wooden\nimage of a tolerable large fize, feated in a\nchair; which nearly referable one of o|ff\narmed chairs. There was a grafs plat all\nround the image, and a fmall railing made\nof wood: befides the chajrs were feveral\nto-es, and many other fmall articles. Abbenooe informed him, that this houfe ha4\nbeen built with the to-es he had given him\nupon his fird calling at Oneehow: and that\nthe other articles were prefents that he had\nmade him at different times: and that the\nimage was in commemoration, that he had\nbeen amongd them. Few people were admitted into this houfe. Amongd other articles in it, were feveral drmns, one in particular was very large; the head of which,\nwas made of the fkin of the large fhark\nalready mentioned: and he was told thefe\ndrums were dedicated to fheir gods. They\nhad fome refrefhments, fuch as pork, faked\nfifh, taro, plantains and cocoa-nuts; and\nthen returned to the beach.: the long-boat\nbeing ra\nI? /\nlll'!!-ip\ni36\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nbeing in fhore to take off fome provifions of\ndifferent kinds, /that-. .were collected bv a\nTabooara or General tax laid on the natives\"\nby;the;''Kihg.';.' Captain Portlock ordered the\nofficer in her to remain at anchor, a little\nSmance from the beach, until fome of the\nthings' came d&wn : and during the whole\ntime 'had great reafon to be well fatisfied with\nthe natives, who attended fome in canoes,\nothers fwimming about. The Captain went\noff in the long boat, attended by Abbenooe\niand fome of the Chiefs, who were highly\nSelighted with the-fail to the fhip, as there\nhappened to be a very brifka breeze. The\nmethod of fleering with-:the rudder, took\nvery !much their-attention ; and Abbenooe\ntook a fpell at the helm^a-ahd faid that he\nwould try to deer their canoes in the fame\nWay.JN3n their arrival on board, every\nthing'1 was in good order. He fays it is not\nin 'ffis power, to give the praifes that is due\nto ffieie people, from the King to the tow-*-\ntow : their attention and unwearied induftry\nin fupplying them with every thing in their\npower was beyond example: their hofpita-\njiity and generofity were unbounded, and\ntheir\nv\\\na NORTH-WEST COAST OP AMERICA. IO/\ntheir eagernefs to ddla-6ts of kindhefe'-was\namazing. He feems to hope, that by the help\n\"of their own ingenuity, they will be enabled\nfrom their obfervations upon our methods\nof failing, building, &c.\u00C2\u00B0fo bring thefe Articles among themfelves, to much greats\nadvantage than they %re;Tat prefent. His\nfriend Abbenooe's attachments tb; bom\nfhips companies was lingular; in general-he\nflept on board the King George, where a\ncot was hung up for him -inPthe cabin : the\nold man had fome falls before he w&srufed\nto it, by getting in at one fide, and faffirig\nout of the other; but he always got up again\nwith the greateft good nature, and'ftn a\nvery little time furmounted that difficulty.\n' \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Oh the. 8th, the King arrived in the bay,\nattended as ufual: he came on board and\nappeared very well pleafed with th'g friendly\nintercourfe that fubfifted'J between his fub-\njefts and the people. The failors always\nwent on fhbre unarmed,'which prevented\nthe natives having any apprehtenfions of\ndanger; and created a mutual confidence in\nI fpach other. The King ftaid on board a few\nhours IOo\nA VOYAGE TO THE\niv\nI X\nhours, and then went on board the Queen\nCharlotte, to fee Captain Dixon. From\nthis time, to the id of March, they experienced a great deal of bad weather, and\nwgre driven out to fea; and this day came\nto anchor in Wyn&oa Bay, in thirty-feven\nfathoms water: made an attempt to get the\nQueen Charlotte's anchor, without fuccefs.\nTh$' anchors of the King George had\nbeen got before. A Chief of fome confe-\nquence, named Nohonjitehitee, who ha4\nbeen -y\u00C2\u00A3ry often on board, and rendered\nthem a great deal of fervice in procuring\npifpvifions, prefifed Captain Portlock very\nmuch to take him on board. The man ap-\npe^F\u00C2\u00A7ftiiiEp very earned ip his folicitations,\nthat at lad he confented to his going in the\nfhip, and meant to have given hjrn a trip to\n,the North-Wed coad: and at their next\ntouching $t thefe iflands, either to hfve left\nhim tfeere, or brought him to England.\nHe informed the Captgin he had c#lle\u00C2\u00A3led a\ngreat number of little articles, which he\nm^de a prefent of to his father, a very old\nman, almpft worn out with age: butPaoa-\nreare, one of the King's meflengers, who\nrules NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 109\nrules with unbounded fway, when the King\nand principal Chiefs are from the ifland,\nknowing the old man was poflefled of thefe\nthings, went to him and demanded all his\ntreafure, conraKng of a few to-es, beads,\nrings, and various trifling articles which\nhis fbn had given him. The old man\ndenied having any thifeg, for he had taken\nthe precaution not to lodge them in his\nown houfe, but had depofited them in a\nhole in the ground, at a convenient diftanee from the houfe. The meflenger ftill\n\"perfifted in his telling him where they were,\nand the old man continuing obftinate, the\nmeflenger caught hold of him by the throat,\n^hd threatened that iPhe would not give up\nhis goods he would murder him, which had\nnearly been the cafe before he would make\n'the difcovery; at laft he was obliged to do it,\nand the greedy meflenger took them all away.\nNohomitethitee landed with his canoe juft\nas his father was in this fituation, but did\nnot interfere; perhaps not for want of courage, but dreading to lay hands on a meflenger of the King, who are held in great\nfleem.\n\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00BB\nV m\n110\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nas\nn\nefteem. ', He left his father to get out of th\naffair, amd came.onboard as before related.\nBeing pretty late in the evening, and,knowing they never allowed any of ^ them to come\non board in the night, he took care to call\nfrequently out for Popote, in a moft piteous\ntone, to let him know it was he, and that\nhe wanted to come on board, which he did.\nHe then unfolded his forrowful tale, and\nwanted Captain Portlock to punifh the mef-\nfenger for his behaviour ; but had he been\ninclined to do it he could not, for he never\nafter that time put himfelf in his power.\nt\nNohomitehitee in a few days after that,\nbeing tired of living on fait provisions, left\nthem, and they had no opportunity before\nthey left the iflands to enquire what was done\nin the affair. From this time to the 3d of\nMarch was employed in getting ready for\nfea; and leaving, for the fe.cond time, thefe\nfriendly iflands, made the beft of their way\nfor the coaft of America, where they arrived\non the 24th of April, without meeting with\nany very remarkable occurrence; they looked\nfor! p! ii\n1 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0/!\nIk\n11\" lif li\n\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00A3?'\n\u00C2\u00BB V'*fc\u00C2\u00AE^\n11\ns\nf\n11\n1\nj\n\u00C2\u00A7;\u00E2\u0096\u00A0$,\n!$\"''$\ni j]\n|! 1 .\nm\n. ;FV\n4\nf\n\ if .\n112\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nCHAPTER VII.\nArrival at Montagu Ifland\u00E2\u0080\u0094Anchor in Hammings Bay\u00E2\u0080\u0094Boats fent on a Trading Expedition.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meet with- a veffel from Bengal.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nTheir diftreffed Situation.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Refrefhments fent\nthem. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Vifted by a powerful Tribe of Indians. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 I heir Propenfity to Theft. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Leave\nMontagu Ifiaitd.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Ships feparate.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Arrival of the King George in Hinchinbrooke\nCove.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Indians vifit the Ship with Sea-Otter\nSkins.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Boats fent on a Trading Expedition\u00E2\u0080\u0094j\nPlundered by the Indians.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Arrival of the\nNootka\u00E2\u0080\u0094Long-Boats fent to Cook's River.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nDeparture of the Nootka.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Long-Boats return.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Vifted by different Tribes of Indians.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Abundance of Salmon, Herrings and Crabs.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Departure from Port Etches.\n\j P O N coming to anchor at Montagu\nIfland they were vifited by five canoes, fome\ncontaining but one, others two men in them;\nthey were rather furprized to find that they\nm had NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 113\nhad not thefkin of any animal amongft them;\nthey pofleffed many beads of various colours,\nwhich they feemed to put a great value on,\nand they were obferved to be of the fame\nkind with thofe ken in Cook's River the\nSummer before. Their vifitors frequently\nrepeated the word Nootka, pointing at the\nfame time up the Sound. Never having,\neither at this place or in Cook's River, heard\nthe natives make ufe of the word before,\nthey were induced to think they had been\ntaught the word by fome vifitors who had\nrecently been at Nootka; and they were foon\nconvinced that there had lately been fome\npeople trading with them, for on afking for\nthe fea-otter fkins, they were given to under-\ndand that all they had-been able to get\nwas fold to a Thomas Molloy, who, they\nunderflood, had left the Sound. This piece\nof information, however incorrefl it might\nbe, convinced them that they had very little\nto hope for from that place. However, they\nftood in for Prince William's Sound. Towards evening their vifitors left them and\npaddled out of the bay, after dealing feveral\nfifhing lines that were hanging overboard,\n'Ms \" ;' \" * mS, 1 The \u00E2\u0096\u00A0Ill\n1\ni\nM\njf i\u00C2\u00A3\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nThe only wind to which this bay is'-expofecf\nis the South-Weft, aid with that a veffel may\nrun before it into the barbour. On the 25th\nthey got fome waiter for prefentWfe,!ftid fomel\nof the IpigrCompany \"were fent on/fhore fen\n' the 26th to gather fhell-fifli, which^wePStte\nonly refrefhment this place was kno^Srto5\nAfford. The only fjfece to walk in was along\nthe beach, the adjacent country being en*\ntirely covered with fnow. There were^plenty\n|P wild geefe ^nd ducks, but fo fhy that they\ncduld not get within fhot. In a walk Cap-J\ntain Portlock rook along the beach, he fava\nthe remains of two Indian huts, and a*quantity-of wood that had been cut down with\nedged tools 5 the cuts in the wood\" were fo\n^%rge and fair as to convince him thejffwere\nmade by tools of a- diffBfentkihd to th^fiftffed\nby Indians; it wasinerefor^concIu$S\u00C2\u00A5*ffiat\nI the Ruffians had vifited this place the laft\nAuttimn.\n- f NofTncftan6 coming near| they deteM6ned\nhtfo leav\u00C2\u00A3 ffee place?;! %fttflicordingly^ on the\nP*29th they unmoored the fhip, weighed and\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2tfailld cfit\"3^3:he bay; but th\u00C2\u00A3Tame evenfcg\nOSS?-. * wer$ NORTH-W$Sjr \u00C2\u00A3OAST OF AMERICA.^ II5\nvve^under the,necefEty pf.jpmru^gmag^n,\noniaccountof contrary wind. B^tronrthe^^Qf\nrMay, jlbhQy^veighe^ig^d ftgeyed upthe Spun^Jj\nand oft the,4$ G%me):to ancbpr in aTb^y\n,farther. upj|ihe[%\u00C2\u00BBnj3, where the long-boat\nandiiwhale-bq^t b^#g#Jg Ipfgach fhip were\n.made ready for a trying expedition up the\n.fiauudpand early on ^^e mopping of Ae\n5th fet out, under the command of Captain\nriE&con. dn the n^eftn tyne Captain Porilock\nI had I all &ands: employed in clea^i^g and re-\n^JaaiHng thenfhips, and thinking it neceffary\n; for botkvfcflplsto be p^i fhore, it was done, and\nbbjjUtibe 10th every thi^g was finiftied, jwhen\n- Captain DixQureturned^qd gave the following account of his excurfion:\ncc This mornings the 5 th of IN^jy, I fet\ni qui witlrithe boats, in order to fearch for Indians,,,and if poflible to purchafe fome furs;\niany intention x was to make Hinchinbrooke\n.eCove'ifitft, and from thence proceed to Snug\nCorner Cove, as I knew they were the moft\nsiikely places to meetfwith inhabitants. B^d\n- weather coming on at eight o'cjpck, I ppt\nbinto a Cove idSMoritagu IQ&nd, but towards\n12 nine Ii6\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nnine, the weather' clearing up, I proceeded\nround the North-Eaft end of the ifland into\na large bay. Here I found fome Indians on\na hunting party, who gave me to underftand\nthat they belonged to Cape Hinchinbrooke.\nIt being late in the evening, I came to an anchor for the night in the long-boat, and\nmade the whale-boats faft, one on each fide.\n\" As the Indians did not leave us when\nthe night came on, I ordered fix hands\nto keep watch, and the remainder to have\ntheir arms ready, fo that I might call them\nat a moment's notice. ^The Indians fculked\nabout us till near two o'clock, waiting, no\ndoubt, for an opportunity to cut the boats\noff, but finding us attentive to all their motions, they then left us. At four o'clock next\nmorning I weighed and flood over for. Cape\nHinchinbrooke, where I came to anchor at\nhalf pad ten.fAt this place I found feveral\nIndians, and purchafed a few fea-otter fkins.\nThe Ihdians frequently pointed to Snug\nCorner Cove, and endeavoured to make me\nunderftand a veflel lay there. Though this cir-\ncumdance drongly excited my curiofity, and\nmade NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 11J\nmade me particularly anxious to know whether this piece of intelligence was true, yet\nthe day being by this time far fpent, I determined to keep my prefent fituation during\nthe night, as the weather was very unpro-\nmifing: fo that our flanding for Snug Corner Cove, under fuch circumftances, would\nbe attended with fome degree of difficulty\nand danger. A ftri\u00C2\u00A3l and vigilant look out\nwas more neceffary this night, if poflible,\nthan |he preceding one. The Indians\nwhom I had traded with for furs during\nthe afternoon, were a different tribe from\nthat I met with in the bay. Their behaviour\nwas very daring and infolent, though they\ndid not direclly attack us; nor did they leave\nthe boats till day-light next morning. x I\nmake no doubt, but a fight of the various\narticles I had brought to trade with thefe\npeople, occafioned them to lurk about us\nall night, in hopes of a booty; but finding\nthemfelves difappointed, they paddled away\nfeemingly much difcontented.\n\" Early in the morning of the 7th, I fet off\nfor Snug Corner Cove; but the win4 during\nthe\n3 .w\nii 8\nA VOYAGE TO THE\n14 I\n\"1 i 1\nthe whole day being very ligiit, th^long\nboat made very little way; fo that the whale-\nboats were obliged to take her in tow: tiM\nretarded mj^paffage fo much, that I did not\narrive in the cove till 11 o'clock at night.\n. Contrary to my expe6lation, I found no\nveflel, neither did I perceive any of the in-\nHfefeitants*: notwithftanding which I ordered::\nthe fame ftri6l watch to be kept as before,\nrememfifering, that the Di&oyery was boarded by the natives in this very cove, during\nCaptain Cb6k!s laft voyage, in open day.\nDuring tH\u00C2\u00A3 night none of the inhabitants\ncame near us. - \" \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0' -;|f.j \u00E2\u0080\u00A2^\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2' ' \" \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \"\u00C2\u00A3|t\u00C2\u00A3\nfjB\u00C2\u00A3 At delight in the morning of the\n8th,- two Indians came along-fMe in a canoe,\nand gave us to underftand, that there was a\nfhip at no great diftanee; and at the fame\ntime offered to tfondu6l me to it for ^a ft ring\nW beadkif Glad to embrace this propofal,\nI wilfingl^ aefcepted their offer; and fet off\nin the whale-boats, leaving the long-boat\nat anchor. I had not gone far, before the\nwither grew very bad; &ftd flif guide&gave\nme the flip. I Hfr&ever cdn&fcftled the fearciS\n;af:' -:. H ' ;-'' along\nV NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\nalong ftiore till- 12 o'clock; by wMch time\nI had got into the entrance of a large bay,\nand the Weather growing very fqually with\nheavy dorms of fnow and fleet, I thp^^t\nit food advifeable to return to the boat,\nwhere: I arrived about three o'clock. At\nhalf pad fix,|\u00C2\u00A3if,x canoes came into the cove\nyifhere we lay, and told us thgre was a fhip\nnofifar off, to wfeicfy they were going, and\noffered to fhew mq leeway. Th^ weather was\n'tken very bad; b#t as they were going up\nthe inlet, and not, out to fea as my guides\nh&d done in the rooming, I fet out witlji\nthem in my own whale-boat; and at ten\no'clock in the evening, we arrived in the\ncre^k, where the veflel I fo much wiflied to\nfee lay. I found her to be a fnow, cajjed\nthe NoQtka from Bengal, commanded fcgr a\nCaptain Meares> under Ejgglifh colours. I\nleaicfied from Captain Meares, that he had\nfelled from Bengal in March 1786, and that\nhe had touched at Oonalafka in Aug^l:\nfrom t%ence he proceeded to Cook's J^iver,\nwhicfe he intended to make by way of\nthe Barren Iflands* but the weather^at\n4bat tiffte being thick and hazy, he got into\nI a Whit- 120\nA VOYAGE TO THE\niii iff\n111\nWhitfuntide Bay, through which he found\na way into Cook's River. In this draight he\nmet with a party of Ruffian fettlers, who\ninformed him, that the land totheEadward\nof the draight is called by them Kodiac,\nand that they had a fettlement there: like-\nwife, that two European veffels were then at\nanchor at Kodiac, and that they had lately\nfeen two other fhips in Cook's River. This\nintelligence induced him to deer for Prince\nWilliam's Sound, where he arrived the latter1\nend of September. He had wintered in the\ncreek, where I now found him; and his\nveffel was dill fad in the ice: the fcurvy had\nmade fad havock amongd his people, he\nhaving lod his fecond and third Mate, Surgeon, Boatfwain, Carpenter, Cooper, Sail-\nmaker, and a great number of his foremad\nmen, by that dreadful diforder; and the re-,\nmaining part of his crew were in fo feeble a\ndate at one time, that Captain Meares him-\nfeif was the only perfon on board able to\nwalk the deck. It gave him very great\npleafure to find two veffels fo neai him who\ncould in fome meafure affid him in his dif-\ntrefs, and 1 had no Jefs fatisfaftion in af-\nf\nurmg\niw*-= NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 121\nfuring him, that he fhould be furnifhed\nwith every neceffary we could poflibly fpare.\nAs Captain MearesYpeople were getting better, he defired me not to take the trouble of\nfending any refrefhments to .him, as he\nwould come on board us very fhortly in his\nown boat.\n:feet long.; thefe being articles the Indians gg| very fand.of. AbQUt eight o'clock,\n|Capt^ir| Portlock being on fhsre, giving di~\nredtion s NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 12$\nreftions about the Armourers tent, he w$f\ninformed from the fhip, that they faw a boat\nabout the entrance of the bay, plying into\nthe harbour: conjecturing it to be the\nNootka's long-boat, he went immediately\non board, and fent his whale-boat out to\ntheir afliljance. At ten o'clock, her boat returned with the Nootka's-long-boat in tow.\nTheir aflidance was very acceptable, for the\nlong-boat's crew were almod worn out with\nwet and cold, and were in a very weak condition. Captain Meares was in the feoat\nhimfelf, and from him they received fome\nfurther account of their didrefling fituation\nduring the Winter: and by the accounts,\nit was a very deplorable one; for before the\nWinter broke up, the Captain and a Mr.\nRofs, his Chief Mate, Were the only two\nperfons capable of dragging the dead bodies from the fhip over the ice: and not a\nfingle perfon, but what was deeply afHi\u00C2\u00A3lf#\nwith the fcurvy. They learned from Captain\nMeares, that on his arrival in the found, he\ncould not for a long time purchafe one fingle\nfkin, they being all difpofed of to his con-\nfort, the Sea-Otter* commanded by Mr.\nTip-\nP 1 1:1\n\ 1\nJ, |\nIII ;\n\u00C2\u00AB1 ; 11 -\nninp^\n1\nliLjf\ni\n0\nlr\n::' |\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 g r\n*\nu\nHa\n1\nJ\nif\n,,\u00E2\u0080\u0094 .I\n/\n124\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nTipping, who, as well as Captain Meares,\nwas a Lieutenant in the Navy. Both thefe\nfhips had traded with unwrought iron and\nfmall tranfparent beads, of the fame kind\nas they faw the natives have in Cook's bay.\nCaptain Meares informed them that feveral\nother fhips had been trading on the Coad at\ndifferent times, a circumdance that they had\nnot the lead idea of before they left England,\nwhich had the appearance at that time of\nentirely ruining their projecl; and they were\nunder the neceffity of feparating, by which\nmeans they would be able to explore the\nwhole coad; and it was immediately deter^\nmined, that Captain Dixon fhould make\nthe bed of his way to King George's Sound,\nand the King George to remain in and about\nPrince William's Sound: Captain Portlock\nlikewife difpatched his long-boat on a trading\nexpedition to Cook's River, under the direction of Mr. Hayward his third Mate,\nand Mr. Hill, with fix good and trudy men,\nin whom they could place entire confidence.\nHinchinbrooke Cove was appointed as a\nplace of rendezvous for the long-boat, and\nfor her to lie there. On the twentieth of\n;:'f' * '-SI'' '' Junea NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. I2j\nJune, towards evening, the wind blew drong\nand in fqualls; but the next morning, being\nthe 2id of June, the weather grew moderate, when allflhands were employed in\nwooding, watering, brewing and working in\nthe hold. The Queen Charlotte havingfinifh-\ned cleaning, breaming and paying, fhe was\nhauled off the beach into her former dation\nin the afternoon, and compleated their watering, having filled, forty butts, two brandy pipes and nineteen puncheons. At five\no'clock, Captain Meares took leave of them,\nafter being furnifhed with flour, loaf fugar,\nmolaffes, Sandwich Ifland pork, gin, brandy and cheefe, and two good feamen, to\naffid in navigating his fhip to China, at\nwhich place he was to return them: their\nnames were George Willis and Thomas\nDixon, both of whom went at their own re-\nqueds, and not from any intreaty. Befides\ntiiie above articles, they furnifhed Captain\nMeares with 150 cocoa-nuts, which it was\nthought would be a great help to recover the\npeople. Next day, the long-boat fet off for\nher expedition to Cook's Riyer; the crew all\nin high fpiiits, and well fitted out for a fix\nweek's cruize.\nOn \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 J& m$mj\nA VOYAGE TO THE\n1111\nw\ny$tOn the 13th they werevifited by two largs\ncanoes, containing about forty natives, wifch\na number of fmall canoes j attending them :\nthey brought only two very indifferent fjdns,\niand a few furs, which were purchafed, and -.a\n-prefent made the Chief, -whofe name ttoy\nI uederdood was Sheenawaa. This they found\nto he a very powerful tribe in the Sound;\nthey weraaaudacious thieves, andifehat was\nvery remarkable, the little boys were furnifhed wWi fmall hooked dicks for the pur-\n\ pofe of picking pockets. /Their vifitorsive-\nmained about the fhip till, about 6 o'clock,\nwhen they left] them and went .out of the\ncharbour. At- this time the Queen Charlotte's\npeople were about two miles firom the fhips\n*:on*a fifhing party, and the Indiansiimme-\nediately joined them. Beings apprehenfive of\ntheir pillaging the boat, Captain Portlock\nkept a look out with his glafs, and prefenty\na perceived a druggie betwixtihe two parties;\nj on this he immediately fet off in the whale-\n\ boat,twhich was always .kept ready aisned,\nicto their affiffance, and leaiyfing directions for\nlithe yaul to follow, pufhed out towards them\nriwith all fpeed. jj The Indians no|iboner faw\nth\nM north-west coast of America; .'127\nthe boat tfian thgy took to tMe^addles^nd\nwent off as fad as they were able. Ojfpdn\njoining the boat they found the Indians had\ntaken away all their ftfliiftg lines,f'^ndWrere\njud forciiighhbk anchor ofctfiof thei'boat as\nrthey hove in fight. On enquiry, they found\nthe people had no fire-arms an the *fe\u00C2\u00A9at,\nwhich was very Unlucky, as-tven the fight\nof a mufket will prevent the Indians froin\nattempting any violence, fo thoroughly have\nsffee Ruffians taught thetii, by experience,? the\nfatal effect-of ^fire-arms. Captain Meares\ninformed them that, fince^their vifit fin the\ni Refolution, a party of Ruffians had wintered\nin the Sou&d, and, according to the defcaap-\ntion given, in the very place they were now\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 at anchor in, where tlieyf had? a battle with\nthe natives, who were beat off; but fev^n\nRuffians loft theiMives initfae conteft. 'M\nllOn the 14th, having every thing ready\nfor fea, and thinking this a^good opportunity\nfor parang, Captain Dixon went on board\n1&$ King George, and they tobkbleave lof\neach other. The* aQueen Charlotte fhaped\nhe^coi&fe out of the^Sound, and the King\n' jfe \ Jf' George ,m\n128\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nGeorge made for Hinchinbrooke Cove, where\nthey arrived next day. If a\nWe fhall now follow the King George till\ntheir arrival at China, at which place they\nmet with Captain Dixon again; and then\nfhall give an account of the proceedings in\nthe Queen Charlotte, from the time of their\nfeparation to their arrival at China. /. ;\nOn the 16th Captain Portlock had, in the\ncourfe of the day, feveral canoes along-fide,\nof whom he purchafed ten or twelve good\nfea-otter fkins; they likewife hauled the\nfeine frequently, but without fuccefs.\nOn the 18th the Captain went in the\nwhale-boat with an intention of furveying\nthe harbour, but whild engaged in this bufi-\nnefs he faw the enfign flying \ this being the\nfignalfor canoes, he returned on board, and\npurchafed a few good fkins from the natives.\nOn enquiry for falmon, he was given to un-\nderdand, that when the fnow melted from\nthe hills there would be plenty. As the articles he had to barter with were held in no\n.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-*.\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \"\"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 .'if * .'\u00C2\u00AB&\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ' great\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2J NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 129\n\" great effimation, he difpatched MjrrGreflle-\nman, the Second Mate, with the whale-boat\nand yaul, on board the Nootka, to requed of\nCaptain Meares fome articles of trade, which\nhe could well fpare. Having now no other\nway of getting on fhore but in the.Sandwich\nIfland ajpoe, and fhe being difficult to manage/ it became neceffary to have fome fafer\nkind of conveyance. Accordingly, the Carpenter, aflided by feveral other hands? began to build a punt of twelve feet long, fix\nfeet wide, and about three feet deep; the\nCaptain approved of the plan very much, as\nthis punt could not fail to be ufeful in wooding and watering whild rthe boat\u00C2\u00A7 were ab-\nfejnt.' The harbour affording very fine crabs\nand mufcles, a number of the people were\nfent to procure fome, and they returned in\nthe evening wijh a good quantity of each.\nSeveral canoes came along-fide with a trading party, who brought fome very good\nfea-otter fkins and a few indifferent ones.\nThe weather being fine, all their operations\non fkore went brifkly forward; one part I\nwere employed cutting wood/ another faw* 130\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nn\n\u00C2\u00A7 i I\n?ffig *pknk, and the Carj^enfHr, with his a\u00C2\u00A3>\nBftallts-,- about the piiiit; '\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 a': ' -;#'::'-;' ay.\nThe next day they had a Very heavy gale -^f\nwind, and the yaul not mftiffk her Appear-\naftce* ?t;gave them great uSeafftfefs, as her\ncrew were n6tc6niy \"e'xpbfed to the weatfeer,\nbut might probably be driven out of -fhe\nSound anSpa%}l-;perife nefraer could the\nwhale^Mat biYent'to look for and -aflid thefn>\nwithout rdhning a great:'rifk-oF lofii1gJtier\ncrew likewife. However, the weather grow- NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. IJI\ning moderate on the 27th, the whale-boat\nwas fent in fearch of the yaul, with proper\nrefrefhments for her crew, and at nine\no'clock both boats came alQjng-fide^ the\nyaul's crew in a niiich better date than could\nbe expe&ed. The whale-boat met the yaul\n#t the entrance of 'the bay, making an effort\nto get in, which mud have been a fruitlefs\none, had they not met and taken them in\ntow; for the boats were fcarcely got along-\nfide before it began to rain and blow as vio*\nlently as before, a <,'.;; ,:,^S^^>-' -\"111\n3 From this to the 30th bad weather pre*\nvented any bufmefs from going forward on\nfhore. During this interval only three canoes\ncame ak>ng-fide, with cod and halibut fufficient to Xerve the fhip's company one day,\nand a few middling fea-otter fkins. The weather now growing moderate, the parties re-\nfumed their^djfferent employments on fhore.\nII On the 4th of June Meffrs. Creffleman\nand Bryant were fent with the whale-bo#t\nand yaul, on a trading expe^itiqjl, up an\nopening between the harbour tjhey lay in and\nK 2\nSnug\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ' *#\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nSnug Corner Cove, by which means they\nWere likely to ^obtain part of the trade intended for the Nootka. a Juft as night came\non a'few Indians came alung-fide with fome\nhalibut and cod, but no furs*\nThe weather being' fine on the 6th, a\n!'party :wais \"ISnt to dig a piece of ground for\nra garden, orJsa fmall ifland fituated in the\nentrance of \"the cove, and which was named -\nGarden Ifland. After the ground was ready, :\na variety or feeds were iown in it, lucli as\ncabbage, onion, Scotch kale, radifh, favoyj\n\"JJtirflane, thyme, celery, fpinach, cauliflour,\nxiurnip, mudard, rape andPcrefs, with peas,\nbeans, Frenchi;beans,:'and lettuce, befides c$fts\nand barley.-\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 The foil being toleraMf\"godtf,\nat would be:$SK&ef eA'raotdinaryif, among fo\n-great a variety, nothing fhould come to perfection. Ih;the evening the whale-boat and I\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2yaul returned from their expedition, with a\nfew very good fkins, which they purchafed of,\n-a Chief whofe name was Sheenaawa, and\n-who Was cdjfijeftured \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 to be the fame perfon\n-Who paid them a vifit at Montagu Ifland.\nThe Captain intended them for a longer trip,\nrIP - \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 - Hf^a but\nf IslORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 133\nfet it feems they unluckily got into a large\nflat bay, where the boats grounded, and before they could extricate themfelves from\nthe fhoals the tide ebbed, and left them dry\nfor near two miles round. Sheenaawa and\nhis .tribe, which confided of near two hundred men, faw their fituation and paid them\na vifit, mod of them armed with knives and\nfpears. The boats crews at fird were greatly\nalarmed at their fituation; but their fears\nrather fubfided, when they found that plunder was what the Indians wanted :, this they\nendeavoured to prevent, but at the fame\ntime kept their plunderers in good temper 3\nwhich was the mod prudent method the\npeople could poflibly have taken, for had\nthey acled in any other manner, and drove\nto have prevented them from dealing by\nforce, not a man in either boat could have\nefcaped the vengeance of their numerous\nopponents. This plundering party obtained\nan excelleut booty in their own edimation ;\nthey dole mod of the trading articles, two\nmufkets, two pidols, and fome of the people's cloaths; but/what old Sheenaawa feemed\nJo regard as a thing of inedimable value, was 134\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nMr. Creflleman's quadrant, which he feized,\ntogether with his ephemeris and requifite\ntables. It was at this time, that they purchased the fkins jud mentioned: Sheenaawa s\npeople affefting to traffic as a fort of introduction to their depredations.\nCaptain Portlock being at Garden Iffe\non the 9th, faw the Nootka turning in towards the port I on this, the whale-boat and\nyaul were immediately fent to heraffiffance;\nand in the afternoon, fhe anchored jufi\nwithout the King George. Some Indians\ncame into the bay on the 10th, and appeared fhy on feeing the Nootka, which could\nnot be accounted for any other way, than\nthey having fired at fome of the natives jud\nbefore they left Sutherland's Cove, and\nwounded one of them. Captain MeareS\nwent on board the King George, to requed\nof Captain Poitlock to fend his carpenter\non board the Nootka, to examine her mads,\npumps anda fides;, which was complied with.\nThe carpenter found her mads and yards in\ngood order, but the iides in many parts were\ndangeroufly open, and her pumps in a very\nbad NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. J35\nbad condition ; on thi\u00C2\u00A7, he was fent tp work.\non board her; the armourer was fet to work\non her pump geer: a party of men were\nfent on fliore to cut fire wood for her, and\nthe cooper employed in brewing fpfupe beer\nfor her ufe. t\u00C2\u00A3\nOn the 1 itiV the long-boat returned from\nCook's River, and had met with tolerable\nfuccefs. Meffrs. Hayward and Hill affuring\nCaptain Portlock, that Qiuch more bufmefs\nmight be done in another trip. As foon.as\n conveniently,\nand feven fires being condantly burning,\nthey were cured very well.\nThe feine was frequently hauled on the\nlith, and not lefs than 2,000, falmon were\ncaught at each haul; indeed, they were now\nin a\n142\nA VOYAGE TO TH\u00C2\u00A3\n11111\njfi fuch numbers along the flxores, that any\nquantity whatever might be caught with the\ngreateft eafe,f|jL,.* v : - . : ., . : -ipfe: \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n; : On the 2id -Captain Portlock took fe^ral\n..of the .people who were lately recovered\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2from ficknefs on fhore, to take a walk and\ngatjber water-crefles. This little excurfion\nhad a wonderfully good effect on every one jj\nthey fat down on the grafs and made a hearty\nmeal on fried pork and falmon, and, by\nway of fallad, had an abundance of water-\ncrefles: they likewife gathered a fufficieijj:\nquantity to ferve every perfon on board.\nNear the place where diey landed was a\nfrefh water lake, in which there was abundance of falmon, which probably willjgive the^eader\nL fatisfa\u00C2\u00A3lion, ,\u00C2\u00AB\n246\nA VOYAGE TO TUt\niiMilhH K'\n1\n\u00C2\u00A71!\nfatisfaftion, as they are the refult of clofe at-*\ntention, and minute remarks on their behaviour and general conduct.\nThefe people are, for thg mod part* fliort\nin ftature, and fquare made men | their faces,\nmen and women, are in general flat and\nround, with high cheek bones and flattifh\nijipfes : their teeth are very good and white $\neyes dark^ quick of fight: their fmell very\ngood, and which they quicken by duelling\no\u00C2\u00A3 the fnake-root parched. As to their com-\nplexions, they are generally lighter than the\nSouthern Indians, and fome of their wojgen\nhave rofy cheeks. Their hair is black and\ndraight, and they are fond of having it\nlong I but on the death of a friend they cut\nit fliort, to denote them to be in mourning;\nnor does itafeem they have any other way to\nmark their forrow and concern for the lofs of^\ntheir relations. The men have generally\nbad ill-fhaped legs, which is attributed to\ntheir fitting in one conflant pofition in their\ncanoes. They generally paint their faces and\nhands. Their ears and nofes^are bored,\nand their under lios flit. In the hole in the\nriofc\nI NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 14*?\nnofe they hang an ornament* as they deem\nit, made of bone or ivory* two or three inches\nlong: at the ears, they moftly wear beads\nhanging down to the flioulder -, and in the\nflit in the lip, they have a bone or ivory in-\ndrument fitted, with holes in it, from which\nthey hang beads as law as the chin : thefe\nholes in the lip disfigure them very much,\nfome of them having it as large as the\nmouth. But with all this fancied finery*\nthey are remarkably filthy in their perfon S|\nand not frequently changing their garments,\nthey are very loufy; I and in times of fcarcity,\nthefe vermin probably ferve them as an article of food, for they often pick and eat them %\nand in general they are very large;f Their\nclothing confids wholly of the fkins of animals and birds. In judice to them it mud\nbe faid, that in general they were found very\nfriendly -, and they appear fo remarkably\ntender and affectionate to their women and\nchildren, that you cannot pleafe them mord\nthan in making them fmall prefents-, but\nyour attention to their women mud be carried no farther, for nothing gives them\n;#, L 2 ' greater\nlife!!'!.!,\nP I\n148\nA VOYAGE TO THE\ngreater difpleafure than taking liberties witf\nthem.\nii 1\nIII 1\nAnother very prevalent inclination, is, that\nof thieving: this, however, is by no means\npeculiar to them, but is equally to be feen\nin all other Indians, not only from drangers,\nbut from one another. In the courfe of\ntheir trading they were frequently feen to\ndeal from each other, and on being detected,\nthey will give up the articles they have\ndolen with a laugh, and immediately appear\nas unconcerned as if nothing had happened\namifs. Thieving with dexterity, is rather\nconfidered a grace than a difgrace, and the\ncomplete thief is a clever fellow; but the\nbungling pilferer is lefs admired. The man\nwho comes as a profeiTed thief may generally\nbe known, for his face will be all daubed\nwith paint; and whild you may be viewing\nthe curious figure he cuts with his painted\nface, you may be fure that his hands are not\nidle, if there is any thing near him worth\ndealing; and whenever you fee his arm\nflipped from out of the fleeve of the frock of\nfkins which they always wear, you may red\naflured NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. I49\naffined that the perfon is intent on thieving;\nand they always conceal the articles they have\nftolen under their frocks, until they have an\nopportunity of dowing them away in their\ncanoes. But notwithdanding all Captain\nPortlock's care, and all the people's vigilance,\nthey frequently dole little things from them :\nhowever, on the Captain appearing rather\nangry, and endeavouring to convince them\nof the impropriety of their behaviour, they\nbecame lefs addicted to thieving. Upon the\nwhole, they appear a good kind of people,\nand there is not the lead doubt, if a fettle-\nment of fufficient drength was edablifhed,\nwould be an indudrious fet of people in\nhunting, and procuring the fea-otter and\nother fkins, for fale to the fet tiers. The\nweaker tribes are frequently robbed and\nplundered by the dronger, and prevented\nfrom hunting ; which would not be the\ncafe were there a proper fettlement edablifhed in fome convenient place, for that\nwould give protection to the whole. The\ninhabitants of this Sound, and indeed from\nhence to King George's Sound, are by no\nmeans fo numerous as was in general ftip-\n^3\npofed| ,F\u00C2\u00A7\nj.'i!\nI $6\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nIII\n! j\nIII\n11:\npofed; therefore, not fo dangerous to fet^\ntiers. This Sound, and as far as Comptroller's Bay, would fcarcely muder tferee\nhundred fighting men; and Cook's River,\naccording to Mr. Hill's obfervation, could\nnot muder much above that number; and\nthe whole of thefe people dand fo much in\nawe of fire-arms, that a few men, well proi\nvided, would be perfectly fecure. .\n; The place mod likely for wintering $t\n#nd forming a fettlement, feems to be the\nWed harbour of Port Etches: it hath feveral advantages over any place Captain\nPortlock faw upon the coad; one of them is,\nthat it lies fo near the fea, that in all probability it would be one of the lad places that\nWould freeze, and one of the fird in which\nthe ice would break : In the next place, the\nfettlers would be much flickered by the high\nland lying to the Eaflward and Northward,\nfrom the bleak winds in the Winter; and\nthey would have all the Southern afpeft open\nover the low land which lies to the Southward, which land in a very little time might\nbe turned to very ufeful purpofes in raifing\narticles NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. I\u00C2\u00A3I\narticles of food. They might fee from this\nfituation, the paffkge from fea and a great\npart of the Sound. The furrounding country after the fnow leaves it, which is about\nthe middle of June, is pleafant enough; the\nweather is at times, long before that period,\nvery fine and pleafant, and at other times\nexceedingly boiderous with conffant rain,\nwhich walhes in a fhort time great quantities of the fnow away, foon leaves the lower\nparts clear, and you may immediately perceive the vegetables coming ford?.7* This\ncountry abounds wrA trees of the pine kind,\nfome very large; a good quantity of alder\nand witch hazel. The fruit-bufhes are in\ngreat abundance; fuch as bilberry-bufties,\nrafberry-buflies, drawberries, alderberry-\nbufhes, and currant-bufhes, red and black.\nThe vegetables, are water-crefief, wild celery, four-dock, fhepherd's purfe, angelica,\nhemlock, wild peas, and wild onion. Unfortunately none of the feed that was fown\non Garden Ifland came to any perfection;\nbut probably it was fpoiled by age, being\nnear twelve months old before the fhip left\nEngland. There were no berries fit for ga-\nL 4\nthering A VOYAGE TO THE\nthering when they left Port Etches, but in a\nftiort time would be quite ripe, and any\nquantity might be gathered for a Winter's\ndock. They made ufe of alder-buds when\nthey were young as greens, and when they\nwere boiled they eat very well. All the\nfhip's company partook of them one day for\ndinner, but they had a drange effeft; not a\nperfon on board but -what was phyficked in a\njnod extraordinary manner: On fome it\na\u00C2\u00A3led as an emetic as well as a purge, and\nkept working for thirty-fix hours. The\nbuds of the young black currant-bufhes\"\nwere made ufe of as tea, with the pine-tops\nynixed, which drank very pleafant. The articles of food of the inhabitants, are fifli, an$\nanimals of all kinds, of which they eat veYy\nheartily when they have it in their power;\nthey alfo eat the vegetables which the country affords, and the inner bark of the pine-\ntree, which in the Spring mud be of infinite\nfervice in recovering them from the fcurvy,\nwith which difeafe, there is reafon to think,\nthey are muph afflifted during the Winter,\nas many of them fiad fwollen legs and fores,\nwhich certainly proceeded from that dif-\n|i eafe -3 [0RTH-WEST COAST OP AMERICA,\n*53\neafe; for as the Summer advanced, little of\nthofe appearances were to be feen. They\nnever fmoke their provifions; and for want\nof fait, have no other way of curing their\nWinter dock of fifh than drying it in the\nfun : their frefli fifli they generally road, by\nrunning fome dick through tofpreadit, and\nthen putting it before the fire. Their animal food they generally drefs in bafkets or\nwooden veffels, by putting to it red-hot\nflones, until the vicluals are drefled enough;\nand it is furprifing to fee how quick they\ndrefs their provifions in this way. During\nthe Summer feafon they lead a drange wandering life; and the fhelter they live under\nin bad weather, when from home, is either\ntheir canoes, or fmall fheds made of a few\ndicks, and covered with a little bark. Their\nWinter habitations are alfo ill-made and in-\nconfident ; they in general are not more\nthan from four to fix feet high, about ten\nfeet long, and eight feet broad, built with\nthick plank, and the crevices filled up with\ndry mofs; and one of thefe houfes is generally occupied by a great number of inhabitants. Their weapons for war are fpears\no *54\nA VOYAGE TO THE\ndf fixteen or eighteen feet long, headed with\niron, bows and arrows, and long knives; all\nof which they are amazingly dexterous in\nufing. Their fifhing implements are wooderi\nhookg, with lines made of a fmall kind of\nrock-weed, which grows to a confiderable\nlength. With thefe hooks and lines they\ncatch halibut and cod; falmon they either\nIpear or catch in wiers; and herring thet\ncatch with fmall nets. \u00C2\u00A7 Their implements\nthat they kill the fea-otter and other amphibious animals with, are harpoons made of\nbone with two or more barbs, at the top of\na daflf fix or eight feet long, on which is\nfaflened a large bladder as a buoy, and darts\nof about three or four feet long, which they\nthrow with a wooden indrument of about a\nfoot Ions;. W!\nIt fhould before have been mentioned,\nthat in the bay where the water-creffes grew,\nwas a tree with an infcription on it; the\ncharaclers, fome were of opinion, were\nGreek: it appeared as if the infcription had\nbeen made in the latter part of the preceding year, and probably by a man who fome\ntime after the Nootka's arrival, left her.\nm This\nif NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\nI\nThis man is a native of one of the iflands in\nthe Mediterranean, and it fliould feem, was\ndrove from the Nootka by bad ufage, and is\n|dill among the Indians.\nBeing well clear of Montagu Ifland, they\nflood to the Southward and Eadwafd, with\nan intention of making: a harbour near\nCape Edgecombe.\nOn the 6th of Auguff, they faw an opening in the land, which promifed well for a\ngood harbour, and fituated about eight\nleagues to the South-Ead of Crofs Cape.\nOn drawing near the opening, a large Indian\nboat came out with twelve people in her,\nand only three of them men, thored women\nand children. About noon, they anchored in\n.a mod fpacious and excellent harbour, entirely land-locked. Soon after they were\nmoored, the Indian boat which had followed\nthem in, came along-fide, and gave them a\nfong in the ufual Indian manner : their language was totally different from that fpoken\nby the natives in Prince William's Sound;\nbut they extended their arms as a token of\npeace, pearly the fame as thofe people.\nTheir 156\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nTheir boat was the body of a large pine-\ntree, neatly excavated, and tapered away towards the ends until they came to a point;\nindeed the whole was finifhed in a neat and\nvery exact manner. Captain Portlock made\nHis vifitors fome trifling prefents, and (hewing them a fea-otter's fkin, made figns for\nthem to bring him fome, which they feemed\ninclined to do. They were ornamented with\nbeads of various forts, and had fome tin\nkettles and towees, which inclined the Captain to think, that the Queen Charlotte had\ntouched near this neighbourhood ; particularly, as they made him underfland that the\nveffel from which they procured thefe articles, had been in a port to the Eadward of\nCape Edgecombe, and that fhe had two\nmads. This information induced Captain\nPortlock to think that the Charlotte might\ndill be fomewhere about the Cape; and as\nhe had formed an intention of fending the\nlong-boat on a trading expedition, he determined to fit her out with all poflible dif-\npatch. The Indians, after receiving a few\nprefents, left the fhip and went on fhore,\nwhere they remained a fhort time, and then\nreturned: NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 257\nreturned with a few good dry fea-otter fkins,\nThefe Indians are not fo particular in dreff-\ning or ftretching their fkins, as the inhabitants in Prince William's Sound, or Cook's\nRiver $ neither were any of them marked\nwith paint, as is the practice in* the Sound\nand River. On a marked fkin being fhewn\nto the Chief, he immediately knew what\ncountry it came from, and defcribed the inhabitants as having their under lips flit, and\nwearing ornaments in them; he alfo defcribed their canoes, with their method of\npaddling; and on being fhewn a model of\nthe Prince William's Sound canoes, he knew\nit \"to be the fame fort with thofe he had beqa\ndefcribing. He informed Captain Portlock\nthat they had a frequent intercourfe with\nthe natives of Prince William's Sound, in\nthe courfe of which, quarrels often arofe,\nand battles frequently enfued; and one of\nthe n:en fhewed a deep wound near his lip,\nwhich he received in an engagement with\nthem. The daggers which the people hereabouts ufe in battle, are made to flab with\neither end, having three, four, or five inches\nabove the hand, tapered to a fliarp point.\nTowards > A VOYAGE TO TftE\nTowards evening, the Indians prepared toga\non fliore ; but by way of fecuring the Captain's friendfhip, were defirous to leave one\nof their party on board for the night, and\ntake one of his people on fhore; As they\nfeemed to betrav neither a mifchievous or\nthieving difpofition, he had no objection to\nthe propofal; particularly, as the perfon\nwho went with them, might have an oppor-*\ntunity of obferving what number of fea-otter\nfkins they pofl^fied; and might alfo form\nfome idea of their manner of living. Accordingly, one of the people was fent on fhore,\nand that they'might be under no apprehen-*\nfion about his fafety, two of the Indians\nf ifaftead of one as was fird propofed} remained on board, and behaved remarkably\nwell. They were both young, very well\nmade, good-looking men, and appeared to be\nbrothers. || : \u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\"' fi ' \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 i-' \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2' I\nNext morning, the Indians returned with\nthe man they had taken away the night before; but they brought very little trade.\nSRheir refidence was at the foot of a hill near\na run of frefh water, which iffued out of an\nadjacent NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 1 $g\nadjacent valley. Their houfe (for they had\nonly one) appeared to be only a temporary\nhabitation, and they feemed to have but few\narticles of trade amongd them.\n- Early in the morning of the 7th, the longboat was lpnt oft a trading expedition towards Cape Edgecombe, witfa. particular orders to return in feventeen days. The adjacent country abounding with white cedar,\nthe carpenter was fent on fhore with a party\non the 8th, to cut fome for fawing into\nflieathing-boards; the remainder of the fhip's\ncompany were bufied in various neceffkry\nemployments. In the courfe of theaday, a\nfmall canoe came along-fide with one man\nand a woman in her, but had nothing- to\nfell. After fome time, they went .'on ftrore\nin order to give their tribe intelligence of our\nbeing in the harbour. Towards eyiening,\ntheir firfl vifitors came along-fide, and the\ntwo young men again requeded to fleep on\nboard, which was permitted; and Jofepk'\nWoodcock, one of the Captain's apprentices/\nflept on fhore witljt their party. When tW\nIndians left the fhip, they did not-go to their\nold 100\nA VOYAGE TO TH&\nold habitation, but took up their abode in \u00C2\u00A3\nfinal] bay near the fhip; where they eredted\na miferable hut, infufficient to keep out\neither wet or cold.\nNot having any fuccefs in hauling the\nfeine near the fhip, the whale-boat was fent\nwith it up an arm of the found which extended to the Northward. At the head of it\nthey found a frefh water rivulet, where they\ncaught a few good falmon, and a great number of very indifferent ones, mod of which\nwere differed to efcape. Thofe of the bad\nfort had a mod difagreeable colour, to appearance, as if in a date of putrefaftion,\nand the upper jaw had a number of large\nteeth projecting almod \"right out of it*\nSince their arrival they had frequently fQQn\nin the frefli water creeks (in which places\nthefe kind of falmon get a confiderable\nheight) many of them dying, and great numbers on the bank quite dead: indeed, there\nis reafon to fuppofe that few of them fur-\nvive the approach of Winter: but the other\nfort keep in deep water, and about the\nmouths of creeks. v ^ ;\n111 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \" :' ';'.-'-.- '\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0080\u0094 ; The\nJ NOR-fH-WfcST COAST OF AMEftlCA^ i&t\nThe fma?H canoe, which vifited the fhip\nin the morning, returned again at eight\no'cfeck, in company with two large boats*\ncontaining about twenty-five men, women\nand children: after finging near an hour,\nthey took their leave, and went on fhore to\nthe little bay juA mentioned; where fome of\nthem ere\u00C2\u00A3ted temporary huts to lodge in %\nbut others contented themfelves with fuch\nkind, of fhelter, as fome -rocks which hung\nover tfee beach afforded. On leaving the fhip*\nthey promifed to bring fome very good furs\nthe next morning. Accordingly, foon after\nday-light they came along-fide with five very\ngood fea-otter, and a number of beautiful\nJWack fkins, which appeared to be a fpecies\nof feal.\n\ This tribe graded very fairly, and as they\ndid not feem to be of a thieving difpofition,\nCaptain Portlock admitted a number of them\non board. When dinner was brought info\nthe cabin, they required very little invitation to partake; but begun to eat very hear*\ntily, and fo well did they relifli the victuals,\nthat the table was prefen% cleared; and\nM there A VOYAGE Tto.Ttftf\nthere was occafion for another courfe, whie&\nwas brought in, and they fell to v/ith as keen\nan appetite as at fird ; till at length, being\nfairly fatiated, they gave over, though with\nfome relu&ance. fSoon afterwards, they returned to the fhore, well fatisfied with their\nentertainment.' In the afternoon, an- Indian b6at vifited the fhip with two men and\ntwo children in her. One of the men was\na remarkably fine-looking fellow, and appeared to be a perfon of great confequence.\nThey brought a few good fea-otter fkins,\nand a number of wild geefe. The method\nthey make ufe of in catching thefe birds, is\nto chace .and knock them down, immediately\nafter they have fhed their large wing feathers,\nat which time they are not able to fly.\nThefe Indians were ornamented with beads\nt)f a different fort to any that had hitherto'\nBeen feen, they had alfo a carpenter's adze,\nwith the letter B, and three fleurs-de-lis on\nit. They procured thefe articles from two\nveffels, which had been with them to the\nNorth Wed; and the Chief defcribed them,\nas having three mads, and that they had a\ndrum on board, and a number of great guns.\nm Thefe &ORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.^\nThefe circumdances render it probable that\nthe veffels defcribed by the Chief, were the\nFrench men of war that were fitting out\nfor difcovery, at the time the King George\nand Queen Charlotte left England j Befides\nthefe two fhips, they alfo mentioned another\nveffel with two mads, having been on the\ncoad, and that an unfortunate accident\nhappened to one of her boats, which was\nfifhing at anchor in the mouth of the port\nwhere fhe lay; whild fifhing, the wind came\nin frefh from the fea> and when endeavour^\ning to weigh their anchor, the cable flipt on\nthe broad fide of the boat, which overfet\nhen and before any aflidance could be\ngiven them from the fhip, five men were\ndrowned. This boat they defcribed to be\nexactly like the King's George's whale-boat.\nThis Chief and his little party took leave of\nCaptain Portlock on the ioth, and told him\nthat he would return in ten days with more\nfurs. , j|jp v. ;: j a-. - ' ; , \: \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nOn the nth, two large boats came into\nthe found from the Eadward, with a tribe\nwhich were entire drangers: they brought\nM a a few\nP i\n64\nA VOYAGE TO THE\na few good fea-otter firing, and fome of the\nblack fkins before mentioned. This new\nparty of traders l&d not albciate with the\nother Indians; but after their btrfmefs w>&$\nover, they went on fhore in a bay not far\nfrom theihip, whele the cooper was employed in bre^dii^fprucebee^; and to^Mp their\nlodging in a g<^>d convenient h&ufe, which\nIre and his Miftants had built to fheft&r\nthemfelvfcs from the rain, and which w&s\nwell covered with cedar bark. \u00C2\u00A76me of tffeir\nformer acquaintance came on board in the\nevening, and a hoflage wis fent on fhore as\n-tlfual: indeed it Was abfolutely neceffary to\nconform to their cudom in this :-3particular\nfor more tb&n once. When Captain 1P@rt~\nlock riftifed to exchange hodages with thefts,\nthey were immediately alarm'&d, and would\nnot come near the fhip on any account\nwhatever: but on his permitting a perfon\nto go with them on fhore, they would receive him on entering their boat with a general fliout of exultation, and feem perfectly convinced that no harm was intended\nthem. On thefe occafions, inflead of one\nilndian daying on board in exchange for the\n\\r . .., * a a \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0; perfon NORTH-WEST COAST OF AFRICA. 165\nperfon fent on fhore, more than ha^lf a dozen\nwout$ offer themfelves as volunteers, and\nthree or four of them generally flept on\nboard.\nOn the 12th, p$rt of the fhip's company\nhad leave given to recreate themfelves on\nfhore. Jfln the coprfe of their ramble, they\nfell in with a large quantity ofrlndian tea;\nthis difcovery was a timely one, for thf\ngreated part of their tea was expended* and\nthis newly-difcovered tea proved an excel-*\nlent fu^ditutf. It grows on a low fmall\nfhrub, not mgre than twelve inches from the\nground; the leaf is about half an inch long,\nand tapej\u00C2\u00A3 gradually to a point, the under\npart covered with a light downy fubdance.\nIn' the forenoon, Captain Portlock wept in\nthe whale-boat, accompanied by a young Indian, who had generally been on board, t\u00E2\u0082\u00AC>\nvifit their'residence. After proceeding a confiderable way up the found, they arrived at\nthe Indians habitation about noon, and\nfound one fmall temporary houfe, and the\nruins of two others, which had been much\nlarger, an$ appeared to have been made ufe\nmi\n01\nw A VOYAGE TO THE\nof as Winter habitations. On the beaehi\nwas a large boat capable of holding thirty\nperfons, and three others to hold ten people\neach. From this circumdance, the Captain\nexpe&edto have feen a numerous tribe, and\nwas quite furprifed to find only three men,\nthree women, the fame number of girls, and\ntwo boys about twelv^ years old, and two\ninfants. The olded of the men was very\nmuch marked with the fmall-pox, as was a\ngirl who appeared to be about fourteen\nyears old. The old man endeavoured to describe the exceflive torments he endured,\nwhild he was afflicted with the diforder that\nhad marked his face, and gave Captain\nPortlock to underdand that it happened fome\nyears ago: he faidthe didemper carried off\ngreat numbers of the inhabitants, and that\nhimfelf had lod ten children by it. He had.\nten drokes tattoed on one of his arm\u00C2\u00BB\nwhich it feems were marks for the number\nof children he had lod.\nNone of the children under ten or twelve\nyears of age were marked, fo that there is\ngreat reafon to fuppofe the diforder raged but\nlittii KORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. X$J\nlittle more, than that number of years ago;\nand as the Spaniards were on this part of\nthe coad in 1775, it is very probable that\nthefe poor wretches caught this fatal infection. They were amongd them in the height\nof Summer, and probably they caught the\ndiforder about the month of Auguft, To fee\ntheir manner of living at that feafori of the\nyear, one would think it a miracle that any\nof themefcaped with their lives: men, women and children were all \u00E2\u0096\u00A0huddled together\nin a clofe houfe near a large fire, and entirely furrounded with dinking fifh: round the\nhoufe, for at lead one hundred yards, and\nall along: the banks of a little creek that ran\ndown by this miferable dwelling, were\nftrewed with dinking fifh; and in feveral\nplaces were beds of maggots a foot deep, and\nten or twelve feet in circumference; nay,\nthe place had fuch a dreadfully offenfive\nfmell, that even the young Indian himfelf,,\nthough habituated to fuch, wretched fcenes\nfrom his earlieff infancy, having now been\nabfent a few days, could not bear it, but\nearnedly entreated the Captain to return on\nboard.\nM|\n1L5\n;\u00C2\u00BB A VOYAGE TO THE\nH The fufferings of the poor Indians, when\nthe diforder was at its height, mud h^ive\nbeen inconceivable; and no doubt the country was nearly depopulated, for to this day\nit remains very thinly inhabited. A number\nof the Indians who came into the Sound\nfrom the Eadward, were marked with the\nfmall-pox, and one man in particular had\nlod an eye by that diforder: but none of the\nnatives from the Wedward had the lead\ntraces of it. Thefe circumdances make it\nprqbable that the veflel, from which thefe\nunfortunate Indians caught the infection,\nwas in a harbour fomewhere about Cape\nEdgecombe; and none of the natives to the\nWedward of this Sound having any inter-\ncoufe with her, by that means happily ef-\ncaped the diforder. Jl\nOn the 15th, the long-beat returned\nfrom her expedition to the Eadward of Cape\nEdgecombe, when they had brought fome\npretty good fea-otter fkins,. The people\nwith whom they bartered had a number of\narticles, the fame as thofe on board the\nKing George; fuch as tin kettles, rings, &c.\nI f ; , ' f fo NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA.\nfo that it was pretty evident #ie Charlotte\nhad been in that neighborhood. Whjlft\nthey were at anchor, and bufied in putting\nthe boat to rights, fome of the Indians cut\ntheir cable, and afterwards made for the\nfhore. The people in the long boat purfued\nthem, and deflroyed their canoes; but the\nIndians fled into the woods with precipitation. On the long-boat's return, one of the\npeople fell overboard, but was providentially\nfaved by another of them fwimming to him\nwith an oar, by which he kept himfelf above\nwater till they got him on board.\nt\nOn the 18th, Captain Portlock went in\nthe whale-boat to furvey part of the Sound,\nand landing in a fmall bay, found a fort of\nmonument, erecfed probably to the memory\nof fome didinguifhed Chief. This edifice\nwas compofed of four pods, each about\ntwenty feet long, and duck in the ground,\nabout fix feet diflant from each other.\nAbout twelve feet from the ground there\nwas a rough boarded floor, in the middle of\nwhich, an Indian ched was depofited; and\non that part of the edifice which pointed up\nthe A VOYAGE TO THE\nlie Sound, there was painted the refemblance\nof a human face. As none of the inhabitants were near, they intended to examine the\nchedj but on one of the boat's crew attempting to get up for that purpofe, the\nwhole fabric had like to have given way, on\nwhich he defided, as Captain Portlock was\nnot willing to dedroy a building that probably was looked on by the Indians as facred.\nl\u00C2\u00A3\nOn the 20th, their late vifitor from th(\nNorth-Wed made his appearance in a large\nboat, along with about twenty men and\nwomen, and twelve children. This Chief J\ncame along-fide with great parade, ancj. fing-\ningin their ufual way, and by way of addi-J|\ntion, their finging was accompanied by indru-\nmental mufic, fuch as a large old ched for a\ndrum, and two rattles. The Chief was\ndrefled in an old cloth cloak that formerly j\nhad been fcarlet, with- fome old gold fringe\nabout the fhoulders, and ornamented with\nbuttons down each fide: with this coat, and\nhis hair full of white down, (which they\nalways wear when in full drefs) he difplayed\nas much importance as any Spanifh Don\nwould NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 171\nwould have done. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 He had befides in his\nboat, another old drefs that was compofed\nof different coloured pieces, and worn chiefs*\nly by his wife. The Chief did not produce\nany thing for fale, but foon went on (bore,\nprobably to fort his trade, for he foon returned ; but did not come on board until he\nhad entertained them with finging; during^\nwhich time, the Chief afted different characters, and always changed his drefs for each\nreprefentation; at the iame time, fome of\nhis people held up a large mat by way of\nfcene, to prevent them on board from feeing\nwhat was going on behind the curtain.\nAt one time he appeared in the character of\na warrior, with all the ferocity of an Indian\nabout him; and at another time, he repre-\nfented a woman, in which charafter he wore\na very curious mafk, reprefenting a woman's\nface. After this entertainment was over, the.\nChief and fome of his people went on board,\nand trade commenced. During the day,\nCaptain Portlock bought about twenty-five\npieces of good fea-otter fkins; but the Chief\ntraded in fo very tedious a manner, that he\n\u00C2\u00A3ould not purchafe the whole of his furs before mm\nI- /\nj 7%\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nfore the evening came on. The Chiff rev\nmained op. board with one of his. people;\nand as lie- required a hodage, Jofeph Wood-?\ncock was fent on fhore with his party.\nU\nWo^cock having frequently been on\nfhp^e as an h$i|$ge, he was well ki^own to\nthe natives, and they feemed very fond of h$\u00C2\u00A3\ncompany. On one of thefe occafions, he remained amongd the Indians for three days,\nduring which time he had an opportunity of\nfeeing thejr cudoms and mode of living,\nTheir filth and nadinefs was beyond conception; their food, which, confided chiefly\nof fifh, was mixed up with dinking oil, and\nother ingredients equally difagreeable; and\nthe remains of every meal were thrown into\na corner of their hut, upon a heap of thf\nfame kind that was in a date of putrefaction,\nwhich, together with large quantities of f$t\nand dinking oil, caufed a very loathfome\nand offenfive fmell; and what rendered it\nftilf worfe, the fame apartment ferved them\nboth to eat and fleep in.\nhis tmcomfortable fituation, frequently\ninduced NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. I73\ninduced Woodcock to take a ramble into\nthe woods; but he was always natrowly\nwatched by fome of his new companions,\nwho feemed to apprehend that he was endeavouring to make his efcape from them,\n-Oftce ki particular, having rambled a confiderable diflance from the Indians place of\nresidence, he begun to amufe himfelf with\nwhittling, not expecting, if fthe native's\n\"l&krd him, it could poffiblybea matterbf\noffence; but in this he was midaken, for\nfeveral of them immediately ran up to him\nand infided upon his giving over: at 'fiffi:,\nhe did not comprehend thtir meaning, and\nw&nt on with his whidling; however, one\nof them foon put a dop to it, by laying feis\nhar^d on Woodcock's mouth, being appre-\nhenfive that he meant the whidling as a fig-\n%al for fome of his companions to 'tome for\nWin. /fExcept their watching him fb clofely9\nthey always treated him with greaft kindnefs,\nand at meal-times gave him what they considered as choice dainties; mixing his fifh\nwith plenty of flunking oil, 'which in their\nopinion gave it an additional and mod agreeable refifh 5 and he found it no eafy matter I\n174\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nto perfuade them to let him eat his fifh\nwithout fauce.-: Thefe poor wretches by\nliving in fo filthy manner, were entirely covered with vermin, and when the lice grew\ntroublefome, they picked and eat them with\nthe greated relifh and compofure: fome-\ntimes indeed, when they were greatly pef.\ntered, and had not an opportunity of rid-*\nding themfelves of their guefls in that manner, they would turn their jackets and wear\nthem infide outwards by way of giving them\na few hours of refpite. Poor Woodcock\nfoon became as much incumbered with vermin as his companions; but ufe had not as'\nyet reconciled him to fuch. troublefome\ngueds, and he felt his fituation very difa-\ngreeable. At length, he perfuaded one of the\nwomen to rid him of the vermin, and fhe\n(probably confidering them as a peculiar\ndainty) accepted the office with pleafure,\nand entirely cleared him from every thing\nof the kind.\nM The next morning trade again commenced, and the Chief at lad difpofed of all\nhis furs. Captain Portlock finding the adja- &0RTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. I75\ncent neighbourhood was flript of all their\nfurs, determined to go to fea the firft\nopportunity. Accordingly, in the morning\nof the 2 2d, they weighed anchor and dood\nout of the Sound.\nThis party from the North Wed* were\nmuch more addicted to thieving than any of\nthe Indians in the Sound; and it was ado-\nnifhing to fee with what patience they would\nwait, when once they had fixed on any thing\nto deal, and with what dexterity they would\nconvey their booty away. j| One fellow took\na liking to Captain Portlock's drinking mug*\nand he got it under his frock, but unfortunately for the poor fellow, it happened to\nbe half full of beer, a part of which fpilling\nover, difcovered the thief. Notwithdand-\ning, two people were condantly in the cabin to watch the Indians, one fellow found\nan opportunity to get a cutlafs under his\nfrock, and was not difcovered till he was\ngoing down the fide of the fhip; and another found means to deal four pair of wox.fr\nted dockings, with which he got out of the\nfhip undifcovered, . a W . -..\u00E2\u0080\u00A2/,...\u00C2\u00A7| \\n^*^\nIII\nid t\u00C2\u00A7\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2v\nJ 76\nA VbYAGTS TO THE\nThe wotnen at this Sound, (which has obtained the name of Port-lock's Harbour}\ndisfigures themfelves in a mod extraordinary\nmanner, by making an incifion in the under\nlip, in which they wear a piece of wood of an\noval form : they wear them large in proportion to their age, and fome old women had\nthem as large as a tea faucer. The weight of\nthis trencher weighs the lip down, and leaves\nall the lower teeth entirely expofed; which\ngives them a very difagreeafble appearance.\nWhen eating, they generally take more iSIl\nthe mouth than they can fwallow, and aftbt\nmadicating it, they put part on the piece\nof wood, and take it in occafionally as they\nempty their mouths. The children have\ntheir lips bored, when about two years old,\nand wear a peice of copper wire to prevent\nit from clofing; this they wear until they\nare about fourteen yeats old, when they\ntake out the wire, and introduce a piece of\nWood nearly the fize of a button. Both\nfexes (as is the general charafteriftic amongd\nthe Indians) are addifted to indolence and\nlazinefs, are fond of dirt and filth, and differ but little in their manners and cuftoms,\nfrom NORTH-WEST COAST OE AMERICA. l^J\nfront thofe of Prince William's Sound,\nwhich have already been defcribed.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Nothing remarkable happened in their\npaflage from the coad to Sandwich Iflands,\nand on the 27th of September, they faw O-\nwhyhee, at about eight leagues didant. At\nday-light next morning, being about fix\nmiles from the land, a multitude of canoes\ncame off with the different productions of\nthe ifland, in abundance, and in)the courfe\nof the day, they bought a vad quantity of\nhogs and vegetables. Having procured an\nabundant fupply of provifions^ | Captain\nBortlock left Owhyhee and ihaped a courfe\nfor Atooi, and in the moaning of the 3d of\nOftober, they were not more than two\nleagues from the South point of that ifland^\non which, they edged away for Wymoa\nBay. In running along fhore, a number of\ncanoes came off, but had fcarcely any thing\nto fell, giving them to underfland that the\nKing was at Oneehow, and that he had tabooed the hogs before he fet out for that\nifland: they alfo informed the Captain*\nthat Captain Dixon had left a letter for\nN him ri\n*7\u00C2\u00A7\nA VOYAGE TO\nTHE\nhim with Abbenooe, which lay at his houfe\nat Wymoa. On this, Captain Portlock\ndfetched in for the Bay, and when about a\nmile from the fhore, brought the main-top-\nfail to the mad. Soon afterwards, Taheira,\nfen to Abbenooe, came on board, and informed him that the letter was tabooed in his\nfather's houfe, and that it could not be had-\nuntil Abbenooe either came himfelf, or fent\ndirections for its being delivered. Finding\nthis the cafe, they bore away for Oneehow,\nand came to an anchor there on the 4th.\na In the afternoon, the King, accompanied\nby Abbenooe, and mod of the other principal men of Oneehow, came on board, and\nbrought with them a good quantity of yams\nand potatoes. Abbenooe told Captain Port-\nlock, that he would immediately difpatch a\nmeflenger for his letter, and preffed him hard\nto day till the man's return, which he faid\nwould be in thirty-fix hours. This being a\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2good opportunity of procuring a dock of\nyams, the Captain willingly complied* with\nAbbenooe's requeft. A Chief of fome con-\nfequence, named Tabooaraanee, belonging\nm to NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 1^\nto Owhyhee, took his paflage on board the\nKing George to Oneehow, and was received\nby the Kinggand principal men with much\nfatisfaclion. This i^hief informediGfaptain\nPortlock that he was prefent when Captain\nCook was killed; and oni>feeirig a-bayonet\nin the cabin, he laid hold of it, and faid the\nOrono (the name by which Captain Cook\nwa& diffinguifhed) was killed with a weapon\nof that kind, the point entering between hi^K\nfhoulders and coming out at'iihis bread.\nAbbenooe acquainted them, that the Nootka\nhad left Oneehow near a month, and that\nthey parted on very bad terms, Captain\nMeares^fiaving fired on them, but that no\nperfofi was hurt: he alfo mentioned Tyaana\njping off on board the Nootka. f|K\nIn the morning of the 6th, a Chief brought\na letter on board, which was left by a Mr.\nDavid Rofs, Chief Mate of the Nootka,\nwherein he mentioned their paving left an\nanchor in Yam Bay, and fuppofes their cable was cut by the natives. By the afternoon, they had procured near twelve tons of\nyams, and filled up their water.. f \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 -\n;-:\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0: la- \ ] I'N z '%: 'Early Ml\n1\nft \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n1!\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A011:-1\nIII\n11\ni\nX\nA V&YA&E TCT THE\nftEarty next morning, Abfcenooe's fbeflen-*\nger retuinred from Ato6i, w%h Gaptaiii\nDixon'd :< lettar. Every thing now being\nready fdrhfea, they weighed anchor and got\nunder'Tail, in order to proceed to China,\nwhic^s was the nexrfe; place of theiar deftima-\ntioJii\n&&$\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n|j|:Oi3D'the 4th of -November, they^paflifd the\nIflands of Saypan and Tipian, whichdiad a\nmod beautiful appe^ ran rRp^^^^0^^M\n^j| Atcday-light in the morning of the iSthJ\nthrey were furrou&ded by a great: number of\n\u00C2\u00A9ftifiefe fifMng-boats.|: afad. foon afterwards\nfcekxg'a (Bfainefe veffelifteeafing towards thfemi\nthey fhortened fail, tod fefit a boat on boacr a Sutfrmefr\nrefidence,' and the more fo, as there is a probability of meeting withrfine lahndh ^ulthef\non in the feafon.\n, The afternoon and following day were\nemployed by the Captain in fearching for\ninhabitants, but with no better fuccefs than\nbefore. This harbour obtained the name\nof Port Banks, in honour of Sir Jofeph\nBanks. The profpeft at Port Banks,\nthough rather confined, yet has fomething\nin it more pleafing and romantic thanr\nany they had feen on the coad. The land\nto the Northward and Southward rifes to\nan elevation fufficient to convey every idea\nof Winter; and though its fides are perpetually covered with fnow, yet the numerous pines, which ever and anon pop out\ntheir bufhy heads, entirely dived it of that\ndreary and horrific cad with the barren\nmountains to the North-Wed of Cook's\nRiver. To the Eadward, the land is con-\nfiderably lower, and the pines appear to\ngrow in the mod regular and- exact order :\nthefe, A VOYAGE TO THE\nthefe, together with the bufhwoods aftd\nihrubs on the furrounding beaches, form a\nmod beautifuf contrad to the higher land,\nand render the appearance of the whole\ntruly pleafing and delightful. If\nCHAP- NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 20^\nCHAPTER X. f \u00C2\u00BB\"\nLeave Port Banks and proceed along the Coaft.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Difcover a group of Iflands.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Trade with\nthe Natives and procure a great Number of\nSea-Otter Skins.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Short Accowit of the Inhabitants of\u00C2\u00A3>jteen Charlotte's Iflands.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Meet\nwith Two Englifh Veffels.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Paffage from the\nCoafl to the Sandwich Iflands.\u00E2\u0080\u0094TranfaSlions\nthere.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Leave Sandwich Iflands and proceed\nto China.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Arrival at Canton.\n-/xS daying any longed at Port Banks was\nonly a needlefs wade of time, they weighed\nanchor in the morning of the 26th, and\ndood out of the harbour, dill keeping clofe\nin with the coad; and at noon on the 27th\nthey faw an appearance of a fine bay, but\non fending a boat to examine it, the Officer,\non his return, informed Captain Dixon, that\nthe bay afforded no place for a fhip to aftchor\nin, the greated part of it being fhoal water.\nDifap- 20$\nA VOYAGE TO ttiE\nDifappointed of meeting with a harbour at\nthis place, they kept danding to the Southward, and on the 2d of July, danding in\nfor the land, they faw feveral canoes full of\nIndians, who appeared to have been out at\nfea, making towards them; and when the\ncanoes came up with the fhip they had the\npleafure of feeing a number of excellent beaver cloaks, which tfie Indians, at fird, were\nnot inclined to fell, though they endeavoured\nto tempt them by exhibiting various articles\nof trade, fuch as towees, hatchets, adzes,\nhowels, tin-kettles, and pewter-bafons.\nTheir attention was entirely taken up with\nviewing the veffel, which they apparently\ndid witjb: marks of wonder and furprize.\ntAfter their curiofity in fome meafure fub-\nfided, rftjfcey began to trade, and Captain Dixon\nprefently bought all their fkins and cloaks,\nin exchange for towees, which they feemed\nto like very much. After the trade was\nover, the Indians made figris for the fhip to\ngo in towards fhore; giving thejp to under-\ndand that they would find more inhabitants\nand plenty of furs. On danding in within\na mile of the fhore, they faw an Indian town,\nconfiding North-west coast of America. 209\nconfiding of fix huts, built in a regular\nmanner, and pleafantly fituated, but the\nfhore was rocky, and afforded them no place\nto anchor in. On this they dood in for a\nbay which prefented itfelf to the Eadward,\nand as they advanced up it there, was every\nappearance of an excellent harbour; but\nunluckily both wind and tide were againd\nthem, fo that they found it impoffible to\nmake the harbour; therefore hove to, in order\nto trade with the Indians, who by this time\nwere about the fhip in ten canoes, contain-\ning 120 people, many of whom brought\nbeautiful fea-otter cloaks, others excellent\nfkins, and,infhort, none came empty-handed;\nand the rapidity with which they fold them\nwas a circumdance additionally pleafing:\nthey fairly quarrelled with each other who\nfhould fell his cloak fird, and fome actually\nthrew their furs on board, if nobody was\nat hand to receive them; but particular care\nwas taken to let none go from the veflel\nunpaid. Towees were the only articles bartered with on this occafion, and in lefs than\nan hour near three hundred fea-otter fkins\nwexe purchafed, of an excellent quality.\nIP \"I- ! 1 The\n]im A VOVAGE TO THE\nThe cloaks generally contained three fea-\notter fkins, one of which was cut into two\npieces, afterwards they are neatly fewed together, fo as to form a fquare, and are\nloofely tied about the fhoulders with fmall\nleather drings fadened on each fide. Trade\nbeing entirely over by 3 o'clock, they made\nfail and dood out of the bay, with an intention of trying for the harbour the next\nmorning.\nIn the forenoon of the 3 d, feveral canoes\ncame along-fide, but they found them to be\nthe Indians traded with the day before, and\nthat they were dripped of every thing worth\npurchafing; which made Captain Dixon\nJefs anxious of getting into the propofed\nharbour, as there was a greater probability\nof meeting with frefh fupplies of furs to the\nEadward.\n, In the afternoon of the 5th, they met\n$vith a frefli tribe of Indians, bringing a\nnumber of good cloaks, which they difpofed\nof very eagerly; but trade now feemed to have\ntaken a different turn jj brafs pans, pewter\nm batons. NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 211\nbafons, and tin kettles, being the articles\nmod edeemed by thefe people. Captain\nDixon now judged it more advantageous to\nply along fhore, as circumdances required,\nthan come to anchor; efpecially, as he had\nevery reafon to conclude that the natives\ndid not live together in one focial community, but were fcattered about in different\ntribes, and probably at enmity with each\nother. | The Indians did not leave the fhip\ntill evening came on, and then promifed to\nreturn the next morning with more furs.\nIn the forenoon of the 6th, the Indians\nreturned with fome excellent fea-otter cloaks,\nwhich they difpofed of with the fame facility\nas before. The furs in each canoe, feemed\nto be a diflinft property, and the people were\nparticularly careful to prevent their neigh*\nhours from feeing what articles they bartered\nfor. Meeting now with a frefh tribe of\nIndians, Captain Dixon was convinced that\ncoading along fhore to the Eadward, was\nattended with better and fpeedier fuccefs,\nthan lying at anchor could poffibly be. Being clofe in fhore in the afternoon of the\nPs 7th,\nSs a Voyage to ? #e\n7th, a number of canoes were feen putting\noff, on which they fhortened fail and lay\nto for them. The place thefe people came\nfrom had a very lingular appearance, and on\nexamining it narrowly, it was found that\nthey lived in a very large hut, built on a\nfinall ifland, and well fortified after the\nmanner of an Hippah, on which account,\nthis place was didinguifhed by the name of\nHippah Ifland. The tribe who inhabit this\nHippah, feem well defended by Nature from\nany fudden affault of their enemies; for the\nafcent to it from the beach is deep and dif-\nficult of accefs. And the other fides, are\nwell barricadoed with pines and brufhwood.\nNotwithflanding which, they have been at\ninfinite pains in raifing additional fences of\nrails and boards, fo that they mud furely\nrepel any tribe, who fliould dare to attack\ntheir fortification. A number of circum-\ndances had occurred fince their firfl trading\nin Cloak Bay, which ferved to fliew, that the\ninhabitants at this place were of a more fa-\nvage difpofition, and had lefs intercourfe\nwith each other, than any Indians met with\n)&fti the Coad; and there was great reafon to\n3R; \" If 'IP fufpeft NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 213\nfufpecl, that they were cannibals in fome\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0degree. Captain Dixon no fooner faw the\nfortified hut jud mentioned, than this fuf-\npicion was drengthened, as it was, he faid,\nbuilt exaftly on the plan of the Hippah of\nthe favages at New Zealand. The people,\non coming along-fide, traded very quietly,\nand drongly importuned thofe of the Queen\nCharlotte to go on fh&re: at the fame time,\ngiving them to underfland (pointing towards\nthe Ead) that if they vifited that part of\nthe coad, the inhabitants itihere would cut\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2off their heads.\nA number of excellent cloaks and fome\ngood fkins were purchafed from this party,\nwhich confided of not more than thirty-fix\npeople, andastfeey were well armed with\nknives and fpears; it is probable they expected to meet th^r enemies, being equally\nprepared for war o\u00C2\u00A3tradeJ|\nHaving done trading s^vith this party,\nCaptain Dixon proceeded to the Eadward,\nand on the 9th, fell in with another tribe\nof Indians, from whom he purchafed fome\nP 3 very 214\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nvery good cloaks, and a few good fkins.\nIn one of the canoes was an old man, who\nappeared to have fome authority over the\nred, though he had nothing to difpofe of:\nhe gave them to underdand, that in another\npart of thefe iflands (pointing to the Eadward) he could procure a plentiful fupply\nof furs; on which Captain Dixon gavefeim\na light-horfeman's cap: this prefent added\ngreatly to his confequence, and procured\nhim the envy of his companions in the other\nxanoes, who beheld the cap with a longing\neye, and feemed to wifhit in their poffeflion.\nThere were likewife a few women amongfl|\nthem, who all feemed pretty well advanced\nin years: th\u00C2\u00A7*r urider lips were diflorted in\nthe %ne manner as thefe of the women at\nPort Mulgrave and Noffblk Sound, and\nthe pieces of wood were particularly large.\nOne of thefe lip pieces appearing to be peculiarly ornamented, Capt^jji Dixon ^fhed to\npurchafe it, and offered the old woman to\nwhom it belonged a hatchet; but ihgs fhe\nrefufed with contempt: towees, bafons, and\nfeveral other articles were afterwards fhew#\nto her, and condantly rejected. The Cap-\ntaini NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 2I\u00C2\u00A3\ntain began now to defpair of making his\nwifhed-for purchafe, and had nearly given it\nup, when one of the people happening.to\nfhew the old lady a few buttons, which\nlooked remarkably bright, fhe eagerly em*\nbraced the offer; and was now altogether as\nready to part wkh her wooden ornament, as\nbefore fhe was defirous of keeping it. This\ncuiaous lip-piece meafured three and feven*\neighth inches long, and two and five-eighth\ninches in the wided part; it was inlaid\nwith a fmall pearly fhell, round Which\nwas a rim of copper. In danding along\nfhore to the Eadward, they met with different\ntribes of Indians, with whom they traded\nmuch in the fame manner as before. . \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nOn the 24th, eleven canoes came along-\nfide, containing near one hundred and\neighty men, women, and children, which\nwas by far the greated concourfe of people\nthey had feen at any one time ; but curiofity,\nit fed&is, had chiefly induced the natives to\nvifit the fhip at that time, for they brought\nScarcely any thing to fell; indeed, till now,\nthey feldom had feen any women or children\n*\" \" \" V 4 . \u00C2\u00A3 in\n:|'tf! 2l6\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nin the trading parties; for the men, probably expecting to meet with their adverfaries,\nfor the mod part left the women and children behind, as an ufelefs incumbrance.\nThe land which they had been cruizing\nalong for fome time pad, was now judged to\nbe a group of iflands; and as it was pretty\nevident that no more trade could be expefted\non that fide, Captain Dixon purpofed danding round a point to the South-Ead, in order to try what the oppofite fide afforded.\nAfter proceeding round the point, they\nfell in with feveraLjtribes of Indians, who\nbrought fome very good furs.\nOn danding round the iflands, land was\nfeen to the Eadward, which they fuppofed to\nbe the Continent; and on the 29th, the tide\nfetting out from that land, it frequently\ndrove large patches of fea-weed, long grafs,\nand pieces of wood, by the veffel, which made\nthem conclude that there is a large river fetting out from that part of the coaft. The\nriver called Los Reys by De Fonte, is near\nSi ' this NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 217\nthis place ; and though what he fays about\nit is almod incredible,1 yet from the above\ncircumdance, it appears very probable that\nthere are deep inlets into the country.\nIn the afternoon of the 29th, no lefs than\neighteen canoes came along-fide, containing\nmore than two hundred people. This was\nnot only the greated concourfe of traders\nthey had feen, but what rendered the circumftance additionally pleafing, was the great\nquantity of excellent furs they brought, and\nthe facility with which they traded.\nAmongd thefe traders was the old Chief\nwhom they had feen on the other fide thefe\niflands, and who now appearing to be of the\nfird confequence, Captain Dixon permitted\nhim to come on board. The moment he got\non the quarter-deck, he began to tell a long\ndory, the purport of which was, that he had\nlod in battle the cap which had been given\nhim ; and by way of corroborating this circumdance, he fhewed feveral wounds which\nhe had received in defending his property.\nNotwithdanding this, he begged for another\ncap, 2l8\nA VOYAGE TO THE\ncap, intimating at the fame time, that he\nwould never lofe it but with his life.\nThe Captain, willing to gratify his ambition, made him a prefent of another cap, and\nfound it was not bedowed in vain, for he\nbecame extremely lifeful to them in their\ntraffic I whenever any difpute ox midake\narofe in the unavoidable hurry occafioned by\nfo great a number of traders, they always\nreferred the matter to him, and were con-\ndantly fatisfied with his determination.\nOn Captain Dixon pointing to the Eadward, and aiking the old man whether any\nfurs were to be procured there, he gave the\nCaptain to underdand, that it was a different\nnation from his, and that he did not even\nunderdand their language, but was always\nat war with them; that he had killed great\nnumbers, and had many of their heads in his\npoffeflion. The old fellow feemed to take\nparticular pleafure in relating thefe circum-\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0ftances, and took uncommon pains to make\nCaptain Dixon comprehend his meaning.\nHe clofed his relation with advifing him not\nto\nm NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 219\nto go near that part of the coad, for that\nthe inhabitants there would certainly dedroy\nhim and his people. .,:\u00E2\u0096\u00A0..- ^\n. They endeavoured to learn how the Indians difpofed of the bodies of their enemies\nwho were flain in battle; and though they\ncould not underdand the Chief clearly\nenough, pofitively to affert that thefe poor\nwretches are feafled on by the victors, yet\nthere is too much reafon to fear, that 'this\nhorrid cudom is pra\u00C2\u00A3tifed on this part of\nthe coad. The heads are always preferved as\ndanding trophies of victory. : j ,\nOf all the Indians they had feen, this\nChief had the mod lavage afpeft; and his\nwhole appearance fufficienffcly marked him as\na proper perfon to lead on a tribe of cani-\nJbals. His dature was above the common\nfize; his body fpare and thin; and though\nat fird fight he appeared lank and emaciated,\nyet his dep was bold and firm, and his limbs\napparently drong and mufcular; his eyes\nwere large and goggling, and feemed ready\nto dart out of their fockets jj his forehead\ndeeply ''O\nA VOYAGE TO THE\ndeeply wrinkled, not merely by age, but from\na continual frown; all this,joined to a long\nvifage, hollow cheeks, high elevated cheek\nbones, and a natural ferocity of temper,\nformed a countenance not eafily beheld without , fonae degree of emotion: however, he\nproved very ufeful in conducting the traffic\nfo as to give general fatisfacTion; and the\nintelligence he gave Captain Dixon, and the\nmethods he took to make himfelf under-\nftood, fhewed him to poflefs a drong natural capacity* Befides at lead three hundred\nand fifty fkins, which were procured from\nthis party, they brought feveral racoon\ncloaks, each cloak confiding of feven racoon\nfkins, neatly fewed together \ they had alfo a\ngood quantity of oil, in bladders of various\nfizes, from a pint to a gallon: this was a\nmod excellent fort for the lamp, was perfectly fweet, and chiefly collected from the\nfat of animals. Towards. evening:, thefe\nnumerous tribes of Indians having difpofed of\nevery faleable article, they left the fhip and\npaddled for the fhore.\nNext day in the afternoon, eight canoes\ncame NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 221\ncame off to the fhip, but they brought very\nfew furs, and* thofe of an inferior quality;\nintimating at the fame time, that their dock\nwas nearly exhauded. Some of them had\nbeen out oil a fifhing party, and caught a\nnumher of halibut, which proved a feafon-\nable refrefhment to the fhip'rf company.\nHitherto all the people that had been met\nwith at thefe Iflands, though evidently of a\nfavage difpofition, had behaved in a quiet\norderly manner, but this evening they gave\na convincing proof of their mifchievous difpofition, and that in a manner which fhewed\na confiderable degree of cunning. The\npeople who had got the halibut to fell, artfully prolonged their traffic more than was\ncuftomary, and endeavoured by various\nmeans to engage the attention of the people\non board. In the mean time feveral canoes\npaddled flily adern, and feeing fome fkins\npiled againfl one of the cabin windows, one\nof the Indians thrud his fpear through it, in\norder to deal the furs, but perceiving the\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2noife alarmed thofe on deck, they paddled\naway with precipitation: Captain Dixon,\nhowever, 222\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nhowever, willing to make them fenfible that\nhe was able to punifh attempts of this fort,\neven at a diflance, ordered feveral mufkets\nto be fired after them, but did not perceive\nthat they were attended with any fatal effefts.\nIt being pretty evident that few furs more\nwere to be expe6ted from this part, Captain\nDixon judged it mod prudent to make for\nKing George's Sound, efpecially as the time\nwas nearly at hand when he expected to join\nCaptain Portlock at that place.\nOn the id of Augud, in the evening, a\ncanoe, with fourteen Indians, came along-\nfide*, but had nothing to fell; they gave the\npeople on deck to underdand that one of\ntheir companions was killed with a mufket\nfhot, and at the fame time endeavoured to\nmake them fenfible that they were not at\nVariance with them on that account. Indeed\nthey came along-fide the veffel without the\nlead fear, and it is probable that the defign\nof their vifit was to inform the Queen Charlotte's people of the above circumdance.\n5t The ' NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 22^\nThe iflands jud left have proved uncommonly fortunate; a few remarks concerning\nthem may, perhaps, not be unacceptable to\nthe reader. There is every reafon to fuppofe,\nnot only from the number of inlets they\nmet with in coafting along the fhore, but\nfrom meeting the fame inhabitants on the\noppofite fides of the coad, that this is not\none continued land, but rather forms a group\nof iflands, and as fuch they were diAinguifhed\nby the name of \u00C2\u00A7)ueen Charlotte's Iflands.\nThe number of people inhabiting thefe\niflands were eAimated at 1,700, and the\ngreat plenty of furs met with here diffidently\nindicated that the natives have had no in-\ntercourfe whatever with any civilized nation;\nand there is no doubt but Captain 'Dixon\nmay juAly claim the honour of adding Queen\nCharlotte's Iflands to the geography of this\npart of the wad. The ornaments feen a-\nmongft them were very few; and 'tis probable that their knives and fpears have been\nobtained by war rather than traffic, as there\nfeems to be an univerfal variance amongd\nthe different tribes. However, be all this as\nit may, they undoubtedly approach much\nnearer A VOYAGE TO THE\nnearer to a date of favage brutality than\nany Indians that were fQQn on the coad.\nThe Indians in general are very jealous of\ntheir womea, and would feldom permit them\nto come on board; but this was not altogether the cafe with thefe favages, many of\nwhom not only permitted, but urged their\nfemales to come on board, whenever invited;\nbut it was foon found that they were not\nindigated to pay thefe vifits from any amorous difpofition, but merely for the fake of\nplunder, as they were by far the mod rapacious thieves that had been feen during the\nvoyage, dealing every thing indifcriminately\nwhich they could lay their hands on, and\nthat with a degree of dexterity which would\nnot difgrace a difciple of the fuftitia hulk.\nNotwifhdanding the general tenor of thefe\nwomen's behaviour, one indance of ^feeling\nand fenfibility was met with amongd them\nwhich was perfectly adonifliing, and is not,\nperhaps, always to be feen amongd the kx\nin civilized countries. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0'..,\u00E2\u0080\u00A2, \u00E2\u0096\u00A0'*$\u00C2\u00A3>\nIt was on the 24th of J^iy (as has already\nbeen related) when the natives came alongr\n\u00C2\u00A7\u00C2\u00A7! fide NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 225\nfide principally through euribfity^ that a\nChief and his wife were very defirous to fee the\nfhip. Captain Dixon, willing to gratify\nthem in this particular, and thinking that\na fight of the veffel would be a flafiding\nfubjeft for them to talk about, permitted\nthem to come on board. They had a little\nchild along with them, of which they feemed particularly fond, and not caring to trud\nit with the people in their canoe, the Chief\ncame on board by himfelf, leaving their teiv\nder charge with his wife. When the poor\nfellow fi'rd came on deck, he was a good deal\nfrightened, and began to fing, and make a\nnumber of humiliating gedures; the intent of\nwhich was to imprefs them with a favourable opinion of him. By degrees, he grew\neafy, and was prevailed on to go down into\nthe cabin: having daid there fome time, he\ncame upon deck, and after fatisfying his cu-\nriofity with looking at various things, went\ninto his canoe very well pleafed. The wo*\nman, after giving her infant a maternal kifs,\ncame over the fide without the lead hefita-\ntion; and when fhe got on the quarter deck,\ngave them to underftand, that fhe was only\nQ^ come 226\nA VOYAGE TO THE\ncome to fee the veffel, and with a modeflr\ndiffidence in her looks, endeavoured to be-\nfpeak their indulgence and permiffion for\nthat purpofe. She was neatly dreffed after\ntheir fafhion: her under garment,\" which\nwas made of fine tanned leather, fat clofe\nto her body, and reached from her neck to\nthe calf of her leg: her cloak or upper garment was rather courfer, and fat loofe like\na petticoat, and tied with leather firings.\nHaving taken notice of every thing which\nfeemed to attract her attention, Captain\nDixon made her a prefent of a dring of\nbeads for an ornament to each ear, and a\nnumber of buttons, with which fhe was\nhighly pleafed, and made her acknowledgements in the bed manner fhe was able. She\nwas fcarcely got into the canoe, before a\nnumber of women flocked about her, and\nfeeing the beads in her ears, began to talk\nvery earneflly : mod probably to tax her-\nwith incondancy, for fhe immediately claf-\nped her infant to her bread with uiifpeakable;\nfondnefs, and burd into a flood of tears;\nand it was a confiderable time before the\nToothings of her hufband., and the apologies\nB fC*l of NORTH-WSST COAST OF AMERICA. 2 2f\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2of her friends, could bring back hef former\nchearfulnefs and tranquility. Harmony being at length redored in the canoe, the Chief\nheld up his child, and endeavoured to make\nthem fenfible that it was equally dear to hint\nas his wife; intimating at the fame time^\nthat though he had received no prefent, yer,\nhe hoped his little one would be remembered.\nOn this Captain Dixon gave the child a\ncouple of towees, which pleafed the Chief\nwonderfully: a few butt6ns were alfo didri-\nbuted amongd the other women in the canoe, and they left the fhip foon afterwards,\nperfectly fatisfied with their prefents.\nThough every tribe at thefe iflands is go^\nverned by its refpeftive Chief, yet they are\ndivided into families, each of which appears\nto have regulations, and a kind of fubordi-\nnate government of its own. The Chief\nufually trades for the whole tribe, but fome-\ntiines, when his method of barter has been\ndifapproved of, each feparate family has\nclaimed a right to difpofe of their own furs,\nand the Chief always complied with this re-\nqued; though it is uncertain whether he\nQ2 receives\n11.. A VOYAGE TO THE\nreceives any emolument upon thefe oc-\ncafions*- . . :~ jfa Y: a ^ \" ,;:aa:. a-\nThe number of fea-otter fkins collected at\nQueen Charlotte's Iflands was no lefs than\n1,821, many of them very fine: other furs are\nfound in lefs variety here, than in many\nother parts of the coad. Racoons, pine\nmartin and feals, being the only kinds that\nwere feen. Towees, at fir ft, were quite a\nleading article in barter : but fo great a number of traders required a variety of trade,\nand they were frequently obliged to produce\nevery article on board,, before their numerous friends were pleafed.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Captain Dixon ftood on for King George's\nSound, and on the 8th of Auguft, being\nen no great didance from the entrance into that harbour, they faw a fail, and pre-\nfently afterwards a fmaller veffel in company : this gave them fome hopes that it\nmight poflibly be the King George and her\nlong-boat; but on coming up with them,\nthey proved to be two veffels from London,\n2frd belonged to the fame owners as ths\n$\u00C2\u00A3\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 I|. - - .ft , ft King NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 22$\nKing George and Queen Charlotte. Thefe\nveffels had been in King George's Sound,\nbut the King George was not arrived there.\nAs, therefore, there was no neceffity for the\nCharlotte to proceed into that harbour^\nthey took leave of their new partners in\ntrade, and fhaped a courfe for Sandwich\nIflands. . - _ a -\n. A few general remarks concerning the\ncoad of America, in addition to what has\noccafionally been faid, may not be difpleafing\nto the reader. m\n: This vad country, with very little deviation, ti$s the appearance of one continued\nfored, being covered with pines of different\nfpectes, and thefe intermixed with alder,\nbirch, witch-hazle, &c. befides various kinds\nof brufh-wood: and the valleys and low\ngrounds, which are expofed to the fun, and\nfheltered from the wind, afford wild currants, goofebernes, rafberries, and various\nother flowery fhrubs. The foil on the hills\nis a kind of compod, confiding of rotten\nmofs and old decayed trees. This is fre-\nQ 3 1 quently 23G*\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nquently wafhed down into the vallies by the\nfudden meting of the fnow, and there incorporating with a light fand, forms a foi|\nin which mod of the Englifh garden productions might be cultivated with fucpefs.\nWhat number of inhabitants the coad^\nfrom Cook's River to King George's Sound,\nmay contain, is not eafy to determine with\nany degree of certainty ; but from a moderate computation, there cannot be lefs than\nIpn thoufand; indeed, appearances might\nwarrant the conjecture of there being con-\nfiderably more, as the women appear very\nprolific, and the people ire totally free from\nthat long catalogue of difeafes, which luxu*j\u00C2\u00A3\nand intemperance have introduced amongd\nmore civilized nations. But then it mud be\nremembered, that neighbouring tribes are\ngenerally at war with each other; and thefe\ncommotions, both from the nature of theij?\nweapons, and the favage difpofition of the\npeople, mud be attended with fatal confe-\nquences; befides, there is reafon to fuppofe,\nthat numbers are yearly lod at fea, as they\ngo out to a very confiderable didance from.\nP the Si\nNORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 27 I\nthe land on fifhing parties, and fhould bad\nweather fuddenly come on, it is impoffible\nfor their canoes to live. Thefe circum-\ndances \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 certainly tend to depopulate the\ncountry, and in fome meafure account for\nits being,fo thinly inhabited. The hair of\nboth fexes is long and black, and would be\nan ornament to them, were it not for the\nlarge quantities of greafe and red oker con*\ndantly rubbed into it, which not only gives\nit a difguding appearance, but affords a\nnever-failing harbour for vermin. Som\u00C2\u00A9*\ntimes, indeed, the women keep their hair in\ndecent order, parting it from the forehead\nto the crown, and tying it behind after the\nmanner of a club. The young men have no\nbeards; but this does not arife from a. natural want of hair on that part, for the old men\nhad beards all over the chin, and fome of\nthem had whifkers on each fide the upper-\nlip. As this fuppofed defect amongd the\nnatives of America has occafioned much\nfpeculative enquiry amongd the learned and\ningenious, every opportunity was taken of\nlearning how it was occafioned; and they\nwere given to underdand, that the young\n\n[I! 0^0\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nmen got rid of their beards by plucking them\nOut, but as they advance in years the hair is\ndiffered to grow. It might be imagined,\nthat the chilren of thefe favages would enjoy\nthe free and unredrained ufe of their limbs\nfrom their earlied infancy: this, however, is\nnot altogether the cafe. Three piecesof bark\nare fadened together, fo as to form a kind of\nchair; the infant after being wrapped in\nfurs, is put into this chair, and lafhed fo\nclofe, that it cannot alter its podure even\nwith druggling; and the chair is fo contrived, that when a mother wants to feed\nher child, or give it the bread, there is no\nno occafion to releafe the infant from its\nfhackles. Soft mofs is ufed by the Indian\nnurfe to keep her child clean; but little regard is paid to this article, and the poor infants are often terribly excoriated; nay,\nboys of fix or feven years old, may frequently\nbe ken, whofe pofteriors have been evident\nmarks of this neglect in their infancy. ns\nof the human face; they have likewife many\nof thefe devices carved in wood, and fome of\nthem are far from being ill executed. Tljyefe\ncuriofities are greatly valued, and are carfpf\nfully packed in neat fquare boxes, that they\nmay the more conveniently be carried about.\nWhenever any large party came to trade,\nthefe treafures were fird produced, and the\nprincipal perfons dreffed out in all their\nfinery, before the finging commenced. In\naddition to this, the Chief (who always conducts this vocal concert} puts on a large\ncoat made of the eik-fkin, tanned, round the\nlower part of which is one, or fometimes\ntwo rows of dried berries, or the beaks of\nbirds, which make a rattling noife whenever\nIt ;lfll H \u00C2\u00A5 % he 234\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nhe moves. In hjs hand he has a rattle, or\nmore commonly a contrivance to anfwer the\nfame end, wfiicJlfis of a circular form, about\nnine inches in diameter, and mad\u00C2\u00A3 of three\nfmall dicks bent round at different diflances\nfrom each dCMf; great numbers of birds'\nbeaks and dried berries are tied to this curious indrument, which is fliook by the\nChief with great glee, aftd %i his opitiion,\nmakes no fmall addition to the concert.\nTheir fongs generally confid of feveral\nftanzas, to each of which is added a chorus.\nThe beginning of each danza is given out\nby the Chief alone; after which, both m^[\nand women join, and fing in oftaves, beating\ntirrifc- regularly with their hands or paddies :\nmean while, the Chief (hakes his rattle, and\nmakes a thoufand ridiculous gediculations,\nfinging.at intervals in different notes from\nthe reft; and this mirth generally continues\nnear half an hour without inteitniflion.\nWhether or no they make ufe of any\nhieroglyphics to perpetuate the memory of\nevents, cannot be afcertained, though their\nnumerous drawings of birds and fifhes, and\n' their NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 235\ntheir carved reprefentations of animals and\nhuman faces, might perhaps, warrant a fup-\npofition of the kind. Many of thefe carvings are well proportioned, and executed\nwith a confiderable degree of ingenraty,\nwhich appears rather extraordinary amongd\na people fo remote from civilized refinement.\nBut then, we mud confider, that this art is\nfar from being in its infancy; a fondnefs for\ncarving and fculpture, was difcovered amongd\nthefe people by Captain Cook: iron implements were then alfo in ufe; and their\nknives are fo very thin, that they bend them\ninto a variety of forms, which anfwer their\nevery purpofe nearly as well as if they had\nrecourfe to a carpenter's tool-ched.\nII\ntil\nill\nAt what period iron was introduced on\nthis coad is very uncertain, but it mud\ndoubtlefs be a confiderable time ago, and\ntheir implements certainly are not of Englifli\nmanufacture; fo that there is little doubt of\ntheir being obtained from the Ruffians.\nThe only implement that was feen (iron excepted) was a to wee made of jafper, the fame\nas thofe ufed by the New Zealanders.\nIP- 'lit 1 m % The\niff\nm\n1 j\na 236\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nj The ingenuity of thefe people is not confined to devices on wood, or drawings on\nbark; they manufacture a kind of variegated\nblanket, or cloak, fomething like the Englifh\nhorfe-cloths; they do not appear to be wove,\nbut made entirely by hand, and are neatly\nfinifhed. Thefe cloaks are made of wool,\ncollected from the fkins of beads killed in the\nchace; they are held in great edimation, and\nand only wore on extraordinary occafions.\nBefides the fkin-coats wore in common, they\nave large cloaks purpofely for wear, made\nf the elk-fkin, tanned, and wore double,\n>metimes three-fold.\nThough thefe poor favages are in their general manners, trulv in a date of unculti-\nvated harbarifm, yet in one inftancethey can\nboad of a refinement equal to that of more\npolite nations, and that is gaming, which is\ncarried on here to a very great pitch. The only\ngaming implements they faw, were fifty-two\nfmall round bits of wood, about the fize of the\nmiddle finger, and differently marked with\nred paint. A game is played by two perfons\nwith thefe pieces of wood, and it chiefly con-\nIll fids NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 237\nfids in placing them in a variety of pofl-\ntions. A man at Port Mulgrave lod a knife,\na fpear, and feveral towees at this game, in\nlefs than an hour. Though this lofs was\nat lead equal to an Englifh gameder lofing\nhis edate, yet the poor fellow bore his ill-\nfortune with great patience and equanimity\nof temper. ; ' .at, \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ' f|. ;~\n. Time is calculated by moons, and remarkable events are remembered with eafe,\nfor one generation; but whether for any\nlonger period, is very doubtful. What other\nparticulars refpedting the manners and cuf-\ntoms o\u00C2\u00A3 thefe people, occurred during the\nvoyage, have already been given in the former\npart of this work.\nAfter quitting the American Coad, they\ndeered for Sandwich Iflands, and arrived in\nfight of Owhyhee on the 5th of September.\nThe next day they were furrounded by a\nnumber of canoes, and the Indians traded\nvery eagerly; many of them climbing up\nthe fliip's fide for that purpofe, and numbers\nmerely to gratify their curiofity, and look\nfor A VOYAGE TO THE\nfor any thing they could run away with.\nOne of this lad defcription, watching his\nopportunity whild all the people were bufi-\nly engaged with the traders, fnatched a poker from the armourer's forge, and jumped\noverboard with it. They repeatedly called\ntohim to bring it back, but all in vain; the\nfellow fwam off with it, and feemed remarkably well |>leafed with his acquifition.\nPrefently one of the canoes picked him up,\nand they paddled away for the fhore. On\nthis, the Captain determined to make an\nexample of him, and the more fo, as, if he\nwas differed to efcape with impunity, they\nwould find it impoffible to trade with fuch\na 'multiplicity of people, without being\ncontinually fubjecl to their depredations:\non which feveral mufquets were fired at the\nthief, and they prefently faw he was very\n0.\nfeverely wounded by his bleeding profufely.\nAfter fome time, his companions were per-\nfuaded to bring him along-fide, and they\ngot him on board. The bail had flruck his;\nunder jaw, and hurt part of the upper lip.\nThe Surgeon dreffed the wound in the bed\nmanner he was able, and fent the poor fel-\nSa low -NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 239^\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nlow away; but before he left the fhip, he\npetitioned the Captain for a towee, and received it. The Indians were not in the\nlead intimidated by this circumdance, but\ntraded prefently afterwards, as if nothing\nhad happened. ' ?fv\nHaving procured a good fupply of hogs\nand vegetables, together with a large quantity of excellent line for making rope, at\nOwhyhee, they deered for Whajboa, and\nanchored in King George's Bay on the ioth.\nThe next day all the fhip's company were\nbufily employed, in purchafing wood and\nwater, the natives bringing both thofe articles, together with what refrefhments the\nifland afforded, as ufual. About noon the\nKing came on board, and repeatedly en-\nquired for Popote: after flaying fometime,\nand receiving a few prefents, he returned on\nfhore. \" \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 - ' . JIM, .\nBy the 13th, the wooding and watering\nbufinefs being compleated, they weighed\nanchor, and made ;fail for Atooi, Befor\ne\nthey 240\nA VOYAGE TO Tit\nV\nE\nthey were well out of King George's Bay, they\nfaw a large canoe putting off in a hurry,\nand when it came near, they found it to be\nTaheeterre and his attendants. When the\nKing came on board, he feemed forry that\nthey fhould leave Whahoa fo foon, and at\nthe fame time frequently infinuated, that\ntheir being fo fpeedily fupplied with wood\nand water, was in confequence of his immediate orders for that purpofe; and that\nthe fame refpeclful attention fhould be\nfhewn to Popote whenever he arrived.\nOn this Captain Dixon made him a prefent\nof a few faws and axes, which pleafed him\ngreatly; and he took his leave with many\nprofeflions of friendfliip.\nOn the 16th they arrived near the Ead\nfide of Atooi, and on danding along\nfhore, were joined by a great number of\ncanoes. The people rejoiced to fee them\nagain; numbers afked after Popote, and\nfeemed concerned that he was not in their\ncompany. ; ,/ \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 .'Jtv .\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 :\nIn the afternoon they anchored in Wymoa NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. \u00C2\u00A34!\nftioa Bay. f'Early the next morning they\nWere furfounded with canoes/; bringing the\ngreeted abundance1 #f fine hogs and vegetables ; and Abbenooe was particularly\nanxious rto accommodate Captain fDixon\nwith every thing in his power. 'ffcSPw^\nOn the 18th their decks were crowded\nwith vifitors of rank, and amorigd the red,\nTyheira' (fon to Abbenooe) infafoduced his\n#ife anil two little boys: the elded was a\nfhatp little fellow about four years~tfid ;\nthe younger,' an infant in his | mother's\narms: Tyheira, by way of compliment,\nhad named his elded Pbpote,i after Captain\nPortlock \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 and the other, Ditteana, after*\nCaptain Dixon. l In the forenoon Taaao\ncame on board, in a large double canoe,\naccompanied by another, in which were\nhis daughter and two nieces. The attendants on thefe great perfons were very numerous, and joined in a heeva, or fong, on\ntheir coming along fide, fuperior to any\nthing of the kin$l ever heard at thefe\niflands.\nR\nThe '42\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nEl\nThe kigg was gseatjj* pleafed to feeitl^em\nagain, and inquired j)\u00C2\u00A3rtiGularly after popote J He feemed fol^itous to accommodate them with ever$f^ng the, iflai^d afforded ; and indeed^ all the Chie\u00C2\u00A3sJOjried\nwith each other in foppj^ing their-$r$rio]fc$\nwants. Amongd the many indances of\nl^iildnefs and good-natured attention fe^ey\nmet with at this tkne from the Chiefs in\ngeneral, an a\u00C2\u00A3tioqi of Nohomfitahaite's\nint^P not be omitted, a^ it does' fytfti the\ngreeted fyonous, ^nd would reflect credit\ncv^en on. a perfon of education and rejined\niqn\u00C2\u00A7bility. ^Nofconx&tahaite hadi been c&en\non, bo^lrwhen thW were lad at Atopi* and\njjy that j^ew was p^rfofjaU^B acquainted\n-tytfh all tljiie p^gj^|| Being j^^rally .xu-\ntmuaand inq^ifi^ivea he ^pwtookjan opppr-\nttfllity .$& g\u00C2\u00B0h*g ^0]v^ft them, fcc* aik a\nfisher ($f quedions.about th\u00C2\u00A3 .voyage. On\ngoing down between deck^, hetmet with, the\nCarnenter who had been, trailed with a\nfingering diforder for ^ confiderable time,\nand aL pref^ntj wav^ve^\u00C2\u00A3vyeak .and. poorly\nHis pale countenance and emaciatedJjgwe\naffected poor Nohomaitahaite very fenfibly y\na tear NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 24g\nri tear of pity dole unheeded down Hjos cheek 5\nand he began to enquire about his complaint,\nin a tone of tfendernefs arid compaffion:\nfeeing him very weak and infirm', he gently\nchafed and prefled the finews and fnufcles of\nhis legs and thighs, and gave him all the con-\nfolation in his power. Prefently afterwards\n-he came uponJdeck, called his canoe, and\nwent on fhore in a hurry, without taking\nleave of any jlerfon on the cpihrter^-decb,\n3frhich was contrary to his ufual?! cuflom;\nbut he returned very fhortly, biSfiging afihe\n3fif>wl along with him, which he immediately\ncatftied down tqgthe Carpenter; fold hiii^tb\n-haveit drefled imitediately, and he hoped ih\n^would make him better in a day or two. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n|BSAt rroon a frefh breeze fpWidgiflg upfront\nthe Northwdtd, Captain Di^on wifhed to\nEmbrace this oppofjunity of weighing &n~\n'C&^lf but on looking oyer his dock of vf-\ngetables it was judged ri^MTapf to^ir^ure >a\nfurther fupply. No fooner were the King\nkfid Chiefs informed of this ci?\u00C2\u00A3uj|tflance,\nthan^hey alt Went on fbtore, promifing to\nretten fhortly with great plenty $f\u00C2\u00A3fero ; a\u00C2\u00A3-\n^ Ra cordingly 244\nA VOYAGE TO THE\n\u00C2\u00A3ordinglty by three o'clock they all returned,\neach bringing a large double canoe, loaded\nsvith taro and fugar-cane, fo that now they\nwere completely furnifhed with every necef-\nlary article the ifland afforded. The. expedition and difpatch with whichlthis lad taro\nwas brought, and thehvvfree and generous\nmanner in bringing it on board, both fur-\nprized and pleafed Captain Dixon, and he\n\u00C2\u00ABwas not flowaia making fuitable returns.\n{M> the King he gave apaham,^ largei$>aize\nclfiak|&%ed with ribbon, and a very [large\n^bwee,. which pleafed him fo much that he\ntbegan to think himfelf the greated monarch\nIn the univerfe.||The other Chiefs were rewarded with towees, axe^Jjnd faws, el#rely\nto their fatisfaftion. The ladies too, (of\nfjyhom they had no fmall number on bqford)\n0were liberally ornamented with buttons and\nb\u00C2\u00A7ads;>fin fliort, all parties were perfectly\n^leafed, and were profufe in their profefli<$ns\nrof kindnefs and acknowledgment.\n!jj The differen%{produ6lions of thefe iflands\nhave already been noticed, yet a fhort fup-\n-.plementary account, in addition to what has\n\*WS^Hi rW$- ^ ' ' ' ^ already. NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. Z^f\nalready been faid about them, will find a\nplace here. r> \"a'-- V:::'' .-^^^^p1\n|p Thefe people, in their temper and difpo-\nfition, are harmlefs, inoffenfive, and friendly;\nnot fubjecl to pafliojpr or eafily provoked : in\ntheir manners they are lively and chearful,\never ready to render any little fervice in their\npower even to drangers, and purfue every\nthing they undertake with unremitting diligence and application. When attached to\nany perfon they are deady in their friendfhip,\nand are not eafily tempted to neglect the\nintered of a perfon for whom thd^ have once\nprofefled a regard. Their language i# foft,\nfmooth, and abounds with vowels. In their\nconverfation with each other, it appears very\ncopious, and they fpeak with great volubility\nwhen converfing with each other ; but when\nconverting with their vifitors they only made\nufe of thofe words which are mod expreffive\nand fignificant. The Sandwich Iflanders in\ngeneral are about the middle fize, their limbs\ndrait and well proportioned. Some of the\nChiefs, and particularly the women, are inclined to corpulency, and their fkin is\nR 3 fmoother\nI'M >A/VOYAGE 350; TH$\nfgnoothff and fofter than thofe of th%\u00C2\u00A3omt whether\nreligion is held in any great edimation\namongd them, for every God amongd the\njfiands might be purchafed for a few toweefp\nSometimes their yava difhes are fupported\nby three of thefe little wooden images; and\nthis 8 54\nA VOYAGE TO\nMfc*5jT \'\nthis is reckoned a niifter-|$ece iiftheir carv\nmg.\nill\n31 The inhabitant of tl&fe iflands appear\nfubject to very-lew difeafeSfij- afid thou^roe^\ndoubtlefs have been injured by their 3SKS\nheftion wim Europeans, f&t fo fimple fPtheir\nManner (i^iving, tha^i they pay little regard\n15 this cirdifriftance, and fe\u00C2\u00A7fh to thi&k it an\nfiffair of no consequence. It is j#obable%at\nfeiod of thfitr diftfrders prbfceed from an5fn-\ninoeerate ufe or yava; it weaKefis tie efefy\nfivers the body with a kind of Sfprofy /debilitates and emanates thlv'whole frame |\nmakes the body paralyse; haftlfeis old age;\nand, no doubt, brings on death itfelf. f||\n||lThe heeWS, or fongs, rathfef refeinble a\nqulfck energellc rfi'Sifeifcr of fpeSfcifffg, than\nfinging; and the performers fldffi to pay\nmore attention to the motions of'^he body,\nthan the modulations of the voice. fThfc\nwomen are the mod frequent performers Sfir\n^Sis kind of merriment: they begin their\nperformance flow aflid jfSgular ; bit by M3Sp^\njjjrees it grows brifker anil more animated,\n- ( \u00C2\u00A5 W: tfll NORTH-WES r COAST OF AMERICA. 255\ntill it terminates in.gonvulfions of laughter.\nIt is very evident, that thefe people lj^ive f$p;\nthe lead idea of melody, as the tones and\nmodulation in all their fongs are invariably\nthe fame; however, there feems to be fome\ndegree of mventipn in the compofitioi^.of\nthe vjprds, whi\u00C2\u00A7Ji are often on temporary\nfjjhje&s; and the frequent peals of laughter*\nare, no doubt, excited by fome witty;allufion\ncontained in them. They have drums, which\nfomejftmeSj are beat as an addition to their\nheevas; thefe are about twelve or fixteen\ninches high ^feveral holes are cut in- the\nfides, and a hog's fkin, and fometimes a\nfhafk's, is drained over one end: but they\nproduce %very dull heavy found, j^i^ v3jj|\nIt already has been obferved, that the\nChiefs .br9tjjgjit an ab#fl$ant fgpply of/provifions on board; and every thidg beingjr\u00C2\u00A7#dyr\nfor fea, they weigjhed anchor at five o'clock\non the 18th, and came to fail, their friends\ntoJ^ng le#ye of them v^th a }*niv?rfal wifll\nfor a good voyage, and the mod unrejferved\nmarks of friendfhip and attachment.\nChina 2S&\nA VOYAGE TO'\n, Jpftfca was the next place of their defiina-\ntion, and they were already in the fame latt^\ntude, d^fequently had tfcily the:&ngitude W\nrui|:down; but the Captain judgedff|jtmod:\nprudenf j\u00C2\u00A7> deer to |fte SouthwaiB,: Biltthey \"\nwerepin*1%bout th%teen^eg. thirty miri.\nNorth latitude, if^ tfilh fe\u00C2\u00A3ar away to the\nWedward, a$ that track was mod likely for\na trade Wind.\niMOn the 2 2d of October, they paffed the\niflands of Tinian, Say pan, aria Aguigam\nThefe iflands are remarkably free from rdfcks\nor fhoals, fo that veffels may fafelyVun by\nthem in the nighttime in ptoder#te weather;\nthey are all tolerably level*, and have a very\nbeautiful appearance. - *\n*m\nIffOn the 8th of November, they weriin\nfight of the Lima Iflands, and faw a great\nnumber of Chinefij fifhitig-boats. In the\nforenoon, a Pilot came on board; and the\nfame evening, jf they anchored' lii Macao\nRoads.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 - - \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 j\nNext morning,-the Captain went to Ma-\ncao, NORTH-WEST COAST4 OF AMERICA. 2 C?\ncao, in order to procure a choppe for their\npaflage to China. He returned again ontne\nnth, and brought a Pilot along with him.\nThey then weighed anchor, and proceeded\ntowards the Bocca Tigris; and on the 16th5\ncame to anchor at Wampoa. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nm\na\nCHAP- ,25\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nCHAPTER XL\nTranfadlionsat Cant on.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Death of Mr. M'Leod.\nShort Account of Tyaana, a Sandwich Ifland\nChief\u00E2\u0080\u0094Furs fold.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Reafons for their not\nfetching a better Price.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Ships leave Warn-*\npoa.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Short Account of the Fur Trade.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nDeath of Mr. Lauder, Surgeon to the Queen\nCharlotte. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 The Veffels part Company. \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nArrive at St. Helena.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Veffels meet\nthere.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Departure from thence, and Arrival\nin England.\nHE arrival of the King George has already been noticed, and an account given of\nher tranfa&iohs after the fhips parted company. ' -' \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 /\u00C2\u00A7' '\nIn the morning of the 26th, both Captains went to Canton, and Mr. Brown,\n(Prefident of the Supercargoes) affined them,\nthat NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 2\u00C2\u00A7\u00C2\u00A7\nthat their bufinefs fhould be expedited without delay. #^\nOn the 29th, Mr. William M'Leod, Fird\nMate of the King George, departed this life.\nHis death was not occafioned by any diforder caught during the prefent voyage> but\nfrom an old complaint. At the time of his\nbeing taken ill, (which was on the 28th) he\nwas on a vifit on board the Locko Indiaman,\nand his drinking fome dale porter after dinner brought on fo violent a relapfe of his\ndiforder, as was fuppofed to be the immediate caufe of his death. He died univerfally\nlamented, and was interred in the forenoon\nof the 30thj on Frenchman's Ifland, i\nOn the 2d of December, the Superintend\ndantof the China cudoms, (a John Tuck, as\nhe is commonly called) came down from\nCanton to meafure the veflels* and made\neach Captain a prefent of two buffaloes,\neight jars of famfhu, and eight bags of\nground-rice. -J*.\nThis nejefiary piece of bufinefs bei\nover, a faftory was hired at Canton, and the\n&\nS z\n'cargo \u00E2\u0096\u00A0wm*\n26\n0\nA VOYAGE* TO THE\ncargo of both fhips fent up thither on tlieJ\n^th; \Mt for a whole month, the bufinefs\nwas entirely at a dand, and none of the furs\nwere difpofed of.\nIn order to form fome idea of the\nprobable reafons for this delay, it will be\nneceffary to obfef^e, that thefe furs were\nconfigned to the Etfff-India Company's\nSupercargoes, who Were to fell them to the\nbed advantage. # Accordingly, after the fkins\nwere properly aflbrted, two thoufand five\nhundred fea-otter, befides fundry other fkins,\nwere offered to the Hong Merchants, in\nexpeftation of their taking them at an advantageous price; but in this particular\nthe Captains were woefully difappointed, for\nthe moment thefe Hong Merchants had\nlooked the fkins over, and fixed a value 011\nthem, no other Merchant durd interfere in\nthe purchafe; befides, the quantity juft\nmentioned, was not differed to be divided!,\nand there were not maiiy people, except the\nHong Merchants, who had it in their power\nto buy fo large a parcel, and advance the\nmoney immediately-.:-' add tdt this, the duty\non merchandize at the^-Port of Canton,\nems c\nNORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 26l\nfeems not to be regulated by any fixed rule,\nbut reds in a great meafure in the breads of\nthofe appoinced by the Hoppo to lay it on,\nI and who fix it higher or lower at pleafure.\nWith thefe people the Hong Merchants\nhave great influence ; fo that had any indifferent perfon been at liberty to purchafe the\nfkins, and difpofed to give an advantageous\nprice for them, the fear of having an enormous duty to pay, would at once deter them\nfrom any attempt of the kind. During this\ntime, fome of the refufe fold to confiderable\nadvantage.\nCaptain Portlock being one day on a vifit\nto Mr. Cox, an Englifh gentleman refident\nat Canton, wa%much furprized to fee his old\nfriend Tyaana, whom the reader may recollect he met with on his fird vifit to the\nSandwich Iflands. Tyaana immediately recollected him, and fo fenfibly was he affected\nwith the interview, that he clafped his arms\nabout l)im in the mod affecting manner, and\nreclined his headonCapfcPortlock's fhoulder,\nwhile tea^s ran unheeded down his cheeks.\nIt was a confiderable time before he became\nIII S3 calm 2\n6z\nA VOYAGE TO THE\ncalm or collected enough to pronounce the\nname of his old acquaintance Popote, or to\nenquire after his friends at Atooi. On enquiring how he came to China, it feems\nCaptain Meares had touched at Atooi in his\npaflage from the coad of America lb China,\nand Tyaana exprefling a wifh to accompany\n^im to Pretane, Captain Meares had taken\nhim on board and brought him to Matlb,\nat which place he left him in the care of\nMr. Rofs his ChiefilMate, of whom Tyaana\nwas remarkably fond. pThey remained fome\ntime at Macao, and Tyaana was generally\nindulged in walking about whenever his inclination led him: on thefe occafions, he\nconftantly wore a beautiful feathered cap and\ncloak, with a fpearin his hand, to fhew that\nhe was aaperfon of confequence, and did not\nlike to wear any other drefs, except the\ninaro, which is always wore by the Sandwich\nIflanders about the waiA. Such an appearance, however, being fcarcely moded in a civilized country, Mr. Rofs got a light fattin\nwaidcoat and a pair^of trowfers made for\nh|n, which he at firfc wore rather reluctantly, but afterwards they became habitual.\nTyaana, NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 263.\n' Tyaana, though no papift, ufed often to\nfrequent the places of public worfhip at\nMacao, and always paid particular attention\nto the external ceremonies of the congregation, danding up when they dood up,\nkneeling when they kneeled, and in fliort,\nconformed to all their rules with the mod\nobfequious decorum. His noble and generous fpirit was fhewn oh many occafions;\none time he went up to an orange-dall, and\npicking out half ^dozen of the fined* gave\nthe woman who fold the oranges! a couple of\nnails for them, things of great edimation in\nhis own country, obferving at the fame time,\nthat though one nail was more than fufficient for his purchafe, yet he would make\nher a handfome prefent befides. The good\nwoman, however, was not by any means\nfatisfied with fuch payment, and was going\nto raife a disturbance; but fome gentlemen,\nwho luckily happened to be with Tyaana at\nthe time, foon fatisfied the orange-feller.\nWhen the Queen Charlotte arrived in\nMacao Roads, Mr. Rofs and Tyaana went\nwith Captain Dixon, as paflengers to Warn-\n~'\" S 4 f , .-^\u00C2\u00A7 -\" poa..\n*\ sy\n6jl\nA VOYAGE TO THE\n>\npoa.^ During this fhort paffage,adTyapia\noften exprefled his diflike of the Chfiefe, and\ncould fearcel^ beiprevented from throwing\ntheir Pildt overboard. When he arrived at\nCanton, he was particularly noticed by the\ngentlemen at the Englifh factory, and in\nfliort, by every perfon at that place.\nA Captain Talker, o|the Milford, from\nBombay, gave a fumptuous entertaiment to\na number of Englifh gentlemen, and of\ncourfe Tyaana (being a favourite) was\namongd the guefls.y After dinner, being\nupon deck, a number of poor Chinefe in\nfmall fampans were about the fhig^ afking\nalms, as is cuflomary there.. Tyaana immediately enquired what they wanted, and\nwas told they were beggars; on which, he\nobferved, that it was wrong to let any perfon\nwant fopd; that they had no people of that\ndefcription at Atooi; at the fame time he\nwas very importunate to have fomething\ngiven them. Captain Tafker willing to gratify him Jin this particular, ordered all the\nbroken victuals to be brought upon decky\nand Tyaana had the diflribution of them\namongd NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 265\namongd the poor Chinefe, which he did in\nthefmod impartial manne^ Captain Port-\nlock afked him if he was ffip. willing to g&\nto Pretane, but he faid that he expected to\nhave been there rin twelve moons, but that\nnow he fliould be glad to return to Atooi.\nIt feems Captain Meares had engaged in a\nPortugueze expedition to the coad of Ame-\nrica, and promifed to leave Tyaana$t AtoQi,\nin his paflage th&her. i|yfej^ sa d^&\nm The gentlemen at Canton, defirous to give\nhim lading proofs of their ffiendfhip, furnifhed him with whatever could be ufeful\nor acceptable; fuch as bulls, cows, fheep,\ngoats, rabbits turkies, $cc. with oranges,\nmangoes, and various kinds of plants; fo\nthat fhould he arrive fafe with his cargo,\nit will be of the utn^ft importance to his\ncountry.\nH Tyaana is tall, being fix feet two inches\nin height, and exceedingly wel|,made, rather\nH inclined to corpulency; has a pleafing and\nanimated countenance, with expreffive features 266\nA VOYAGE TO THE\ntures and fine pierdng eyes: in fhort, his\n'Whole figure has fomething in it exceedingly\nprepoflefling, and fhews him to be a perfon\nof the fird confequence. - P \u00E2\u0099\u00A6 0-t \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ; a t\nThe furs already mentioned, after being in\nthe market till the 26th of January, were\nthen fold and delivered to the Ead-India\nCompany's ^Supercargoes for 50,000 dollars.\nThere dill rdfeained fundry parcels of infe-\nL|4or furs to difpofe of; and as thefe kept the\nCaptains at Canton, they at lad were bought\nby an old Chinefe Merchant, whofe name\nwas Chichinqua, and who obferved, that he\nhad no other motive for making this pur-\nchafe, than a with to haden their departure,\nit being a pity, he faid, that two fuch fmall\nveffels fhould be detained at a heavy expence\nfor fuch a trifle.\nBy this time a cargo of- teas was got on\nboafd each veffel, and all their bufinefs being\nfinally fettled, they weighed anchor, and on\nthe 9th of February, arrived in Macao\nRoads.\nBefore KORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 20/\nBefore they left this place, a Mfend gave\nthem the following account of the different fhips that had been at China, with\nfurs, with the quantity each veflel had, ~r\nThe fird was fitted out by a Captain\nHanna, being a brig of fixty tons, and\nthirty men jlflie arrived in King George's\nSound, in Aiigufl 1785, and procured five\nhundred and fixty fea-otter fkins; and arrived at Macao in Decembtfr, the fame y#r.\nThe total amount of which fkins fold for\n20,600 dollars. The fame veflel made a\njfecond trip^ when they procured only four\nThundred fkins, which was fold for 8,000\ndollars. N| a .\nThe fnow Captain Cook, Captain Lorie,\nof 300 tons, and the fnow Experiment,\nCaptain Guife, of one hundred tons, were\nfitted out at Bombay, and left that place in\nthe beginning of 1786. They arrived in\nKing George's Sound in June, where they\nprocured fix hundred fea-otter fkins, which\nfold for 24,000 dollars.\nThe *>\nh VOYAGE TO THE\ng|The Nootka, Captain Meares, was fittrf\nout at Bengal, \% a fet of gen^&ie!p,who\ndiled themfelves the Bengal Fur Society,\nand failed from thence in March 1786. She\nprocured three hundred and fifty-feven fkins3\nwhiJffbldfor 14,242 dollars. ; : -\nThe Imperial Eagle, Captain Berkley, had\neight hundred fkins, and the price fixed on\nthem was 30,000 dollars, though they were\nnot folir^wjhen thefe fhips left China.\nThe Spaniards had\nabout feventeen |iui\nfold.\nlikewife imported\n* which were not\nThe two French fhips, commanded by\nPeyrouil and De Langle, procured about fix\nhundred fea-otter fkins, which were fold for\nio-$po dollars; and the furs brought by\nthefe two f|fips, fold in all for 543857 dollars. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 '\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0;;.: V ' -'^gtfe :'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 :1\u00C2\u00A7y-. ^ ^ W->.,/ -\"'-'i^l\n^01.^'J *jx* y$'-'i^\u00C2\u00A3k SSI\nWhat furs the Ruffians procure on the\nAmericanfcoad, it is.impoflibfe to afcertain,\nas they never bring them fo the Canton\nffi market;\nII NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 269\nmarket; but they feem to think tlieir\nannual collection cannot exceed fivefiund5?ed\nfkins.# nfif5 ;' ;-t-'M ; '':\"v^ 'IWJfe\nFrom the above fketch,' it appears very\nplain that the fur trade, if once fet on a\nproper footing, by eflablifhing a factory on\nthe coad, would be a very lucrative branch\nof commerce. And there are likewife other\narticles to be met with, which might be\nJ\nmade ufeful; fuch as ginfang, copper, oil,\nfpars, &x. with great quantities of falmon.,\nIjiOn the 9th of February, ^788, they\nweighed, and dood down Macao Roads, from\nwhence they proceeded on their courfe to\nOil England. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 *\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 :% ' mW\n* On the 28th of February, the Queen\nCharlotte lod her Surgeon, j He was taken\nill long before they left Wampba, but for\nfome time they had hopes of his recovery,\nbeing young and of a found conditution;\nyet his diforder baffled the power of medicine, and he refigned himfelf to the Divine\nwill 27<\nA VOYAGE TO TH&\nwill with the greated eompofure, being perfectly fenfible to the lad moment; and the\nnext day he was committed to the deep. -.\nMFrom this tigrie to the 28 th of March,\nthev experienced \"a great deal of ficknefs in\npaffingj through mhe Straights of Banca\nand Sunda, the land on both coaft s being\nlow, flat, and marfhy; and they had in\ngeneral light winds, with hot fultry weather.\n.. J^The King George lod two of their people with the flux. .,. t\nThey now agreed to part company, and\neach make the bed of their way to St.\nHelena* where the, King George arrived\non the 13th of June, and the Queen Charlotte on the i8th\u00C2\u00AB \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nykHere they got on board fome frefh provifions, and fuch ot%r neceflaries as could\nbe procured, and made the bed of their\nway to England, where the King George\narrived the 22d day of Augud, and the\n. af-; . \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 , '; '' it ' ,. ; Queen NORTHrWEST COAST OF AMERICA. 27$\nQueen Charlotte not till the 17th day\nof September, all hands well, and in high\nfpirits. :jpa \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 a*jjic :jr- - \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0>%\nThe grand objeft of the Voyage, of which\nan account is given in the preceding fheets,\nbeing to trade for furs, with an expectation*\nno doubt, of gaining more than common\nprofits by an undertaking which at once was\nnew, hazardous, and uncertain, the world\nwill naturally enquire whether fuch expectation has been anfwered; and more particularly, as reports have been induflrioufly\npropagated to the contrary. ^\nK That the King George's Sound Company\nhave not accumulated immenfe fortunes,\nmay, perhaps* be true; but it is no lefs certain, that they are gainers to the amount of\nfome thoufands of pounds; and that the\nJL\nvoyage did not anfwer the utmod extent of\ntheir wifhes, undoubtedly was owing to\ntheir own inexperience; for when the King\nGeorge and Queen Charlotte arrived at Canton, and even a month from that period,\nprime fea-otter fkins fold from eighty to\nninety Ok,\n2JZ\nA VOYAGE TO THE\nninety dollars each. Of this quality, thefe\n/hips had at lead two thoufand on board, befides a large quantity of furs of inferior value ; but though they could have fold their\ncargo with eafe, they were not at lifcerty to\ndifpofe of one material article, the fole management of it being veded in the hands of\nthe Ead-India Company's Supercargoes;\nand at length, the fkins jud mentioned, Were\nfold for lefs than twenty dollars each.\n.' From Ijiis plain datement of fadls, the\npublic m$y at once perceive, that this branch\nof commerce, fo far from being a lofing one,\nis, perhaps, the mod profitable and lucrative employ that the enterprizirig Merchant\ncan poffibly engage in.\nFINIS. "@en . "Page 53 misnumbered as page 55.

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