Were I to affix a name to the people of Nootka, as a distinct nation, I would call them _Wakashians_, from the word _wakash_, which was very frequently in their mouths. It seemed to express applause, approbation, and friendship; for when they appeared to be satisfied, or well pleased with any thing they saw, or any incident that happened, they would, with one voice, call out, _Wakash! wakash!_ I shall take my leave of them with remarking, that, differing so essentially as they certainly do in their persons, their customs, and language, from the inhabitants of the islands in the Pacific Ocean, we cannot suppose their respective progenitors to have been united in the same tribe, or to have had any intimate connection, when they emigrated from their original settlements, into the places where we now find their descendants. My account of the transactions in Nootka Sound would be imperfect, without adding the astronomical and nautical observations made by us, while the ships were in that station. _Latitude._ { Sun 49° 36ʹ 1ʺ,15ʺʹ The latitude of the observatory{ { South 49 36 8, 36 by { Stars { North 49 36 10, 30 --------------- The mean of these means - 49 36 6, 47 north. _Longitude._ The longitude, { Twenty sets taken on the } 233° 26ʹ 18ʺ, 7ʺʹ by { 21st and 23d of March } lunar observations{ Ninety-three taken at the } 233 18 6, 6 { observatory } { Twenty-four taken on the } 233 7 16, 7 { 1st, 2d, and 3d of May } ---------------- The mean of these means 233 17 14, 0 east. But by reducing each set taken before } we arrived in the sound, and after we } left it, by the time-keeper, and adding } 233° 17ʹ 30ʺ, 5ʺʹ them up with those made on the spot, } the mean of the 137 sets will be } Longitude by the { Greenwich rate 235° 46ʹ 51ʺ, 0ʺʹ time-keeper { Ulietea rate 233 59 24, 0 From the results of the last fifteen days’ observations of equal altitudes of the sun, the daily rate of the time-keeper was losing, on mean time, 7ʺ; and the 16th of April, she was too slow for mean time, by 16^h 0^m 58ʺ, 45. There was found an irregularity in her rate, greater than at any time before. It was thought proper to reject the first five days, as the rate in them differed so much from that of the fifteen following; and even in these, each day differed from another more than usual. _Variation of the Compass._