Although much engaged with the repairs of his ship, Capt. Cook now and then took a view of the Sound, which was found to be of great extent, and to contain several islands. Two villages were visited. At the most remote, a surly chief refused to let the strangers enter the houses; although some young girls, dressed in their best apparel, welcomed them with a song; as was often done by parties of natives who visited the ships in canoes. At the nearest village, the Captain and his friends had a kind reception, and examined the the houses, and their contents, at pleasure: Mr. Webber, as usual, making drawings of every thing that was curious. The natives were of filthy habits, both as to their persons, their dress, and their houses. Their persons were not handsome, and they besmeared their bodies with red paint. Their dwellings were constructed of boards, sometimes rudely carved; and several families lived under one roof, their sleeping and sitting places being arranged along both sides of the house, like so many different stalls in a stable, but with very low partitions between them. Their canoes, which had neither masts, outriggers, nor sails, were propelled with neat paddles. Their dresses were chiefly flaxen mantles, edged with fur; and a kind of woollen blankets: sometimes they wore garments of skin. Their head was covered with a conical cap: but, on some occasions, they wore wooden vizors, or masks, curiously carved, to resemble the heads of eagles, wolves, porpoises, &c. When drest in such masks, and fur cloaks, they looked like wild beasts, or men-monsters. In one of their houses, were two rudely carved images.
When the ships left the Sound, the natives, in a
