A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16Kerr, Robert
History
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16
Kerr, Robert
Voyages and travels
I. The Ships enter the Sound, and moor in a Harbour.
Intercourse with the Natives. Articles brought to barter.
Thefts committed. The Observatories erected, and Carpenters
set to work. Jealousy of the Inhabitants of the Sound to
prevent other Tribes having Intercourse with the Ships. Stormy
and rainy Weather. Progress round the Sound. Behaviour of the
Natives at their Villages. Their Manner of drying Fish, &c.
Remarkable Visit from Strangers, and introductory Ceremonies.
A second Visit to one of the Villages. Leave to cut Grass,
purchased. The Ships sail. Presents given and received at
parting, 207
II. The Name of the Sound, and Directions for Sailing into
it. Account of the adjacent Country. Weather. Climate. Trees.
Other Vegetable Productions. Quadrupeds, whose Skins were
brought for Sale. Sea Animals. Description of a Sea-Otter.
Birds. Water Fowl. Fish. Shell-fish, &c. Reptiles. Insects.
Stones, &c. Persons of the Inhabitants. Their Colour. Common
Dress and Ornaments. Occasional Dresses, and monstrous
Decorations of wooden Masks. Their general Dispositions.
Songs. Musical Instruments. Their Eagerness to possess Iron
and other Metals, 221
III. Manner of Building the Houses in Nootka Sound. Inside
of them described. Furniture and Utensils. Wooden Images.
Employments of the Men. Of the Women. Food, Animal and
Vegetable. Manner of preparing it. Weapons. Manufactures and
Mechanic Arts. Carving and Painting. Canoes. Implements for
Fishing and Hunting. Iron Tools. Manner of procuring that
Metal. Remarks on their Language, and a Specimen of it.
Astronomical and Nautical Observations made in Nootka Sound,
239
IV. A Storm, after sailing from Nootka Sound. Resolution
springs a Leak. Pretended Strait of Admiral de Fonte passed
unexamined. Progress along the Coast of America. Behring's
Bay. Kaye's Island. Account of it. The Ships come to an
Anchor. Visited by the Natives. Their Behaviour. Fondness for
Beads and Iron. Attempt to plunder the Discovery. Resolution's
Leak stopped; Progress up the Sound. Messrs Gore and Roberts
sent to examine its Extent. Reasons against a Passage to the
North through it. The Ships proceed down it to the open Sea
260
V. The Inlet called Prince William's Sound. Its Extent.
Persons of the Inhabitants described. Their Dress. Incision of
the Under-lip. Various other Ornaments. Their Boats. Weapons.
Fishing and hunting Instruments. Utensils. Tools. Uses Iron
is applied to. Food. Language, and a Specimen of it. Animals.
Birds. Fish. Iron and Beads, whence received, 279
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