A Storm after sailing from Nootka Sound.—Resolution springs 313 a Leak.—Pretended Strait of Admiral de Fonte passed unexamined.—Progress along the Coast of America.—Beering’s Bay.—Kaye’s Island.—Account of it.—The Ships come to 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 CHAP. V. The Inlet called Prince William’s Sound.—Its Extent.—Persons 336 of the Inhabitants described.—Their Dress.—Incision of their 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 CHAP. VI. Progress along the Coast.—Cape Elizabeth.—Cape St. 351 Hermogenes.—Accounts of Beering’s Voyage very defective.— Point Banks.—Cape Douglas.—Cape Bede.—Mount St. Augustin.— Hopes of finding a Passage up an Inlet.—The Ships proceed up it.—Indubitable Marks of its being a River.—Named Cook’s River.—The Ships return down it.—Various Visits from the Natives.—Lieutenant King lands, and takes possession of the Country.—His Report.—The Resolution runs aground on a Shoal.—Reflections on the Discovery of Cook’s River.—The considerable Tides in it accounted for CHAP. VII. Discoveries after leaving Cook’s River.—Island of St. 370 Hermogenes.—Cape Whitsunday.—Cape Greville.—Cape Barnabas.— Two-headed Point.—Trinity Island.—Beering’s Foggy Island.—A beautiful Bird described.—Kodiak, and the Schumagin Islands.—A Russian Letter brought on board by a Native.— Conjectures about it.—Rock Point.—Halibut Island.—A Volcano Mountain.—Providential Escape.—Arrival of the Ships at Oonalaschka.—Intercourse with the Natives there.—Another Russian Letter.—Samganoodha Harbour described CHAP. VIII. Progress northward, after leaving Oonalashka.—The Islands 390 Oonella and Acootan.—Ooneemak.—Shallowness of the Water along the Coast.—Bristol Bay.—Round Island.—Calm Point.—Cape Newenham.—Lieutenant Williamson lands, and his Report.— Bristol Bay, and its extent.—The Ships obliged to return, on account of Shoals.—Natives come off to the Ships.—Death of Mr. Anderson; his Character; and Island named after him.— Point Rodney.—Sledge Island, and Remarks on landing there.— King’s Island.—Cape Prince of Wales, the western Extreme of America.—Course westward.—Anchor in a Bay on the Coast of Asia CHAP. IX.