On monday, the 11th, Capt. Cook landed on a small isle, which he named Kaye's Isle, abounding with pine-trees; and left here a bottle, containing an inscription, and two silver pennies. Next day he arrived at an extensive inlet, which he named Prince William's Sound: and here, in a spot named Snug Corner Bay, the leak of the Resolution was effectually stopped. The inhabitants of the Sound, who came off to the ships in canoes, were quite a different race from those of Nootka Sound; resembling, in their persons, habits, and dress, the Esquimaux and Greenlanders; and having the same kind of canoes, made of seal skins stretched on a frame of slender laths. Some were large enough to hold twenty people; others were adapted to hold one or two, having one hole, or two holes, to admit the persons of those who sat in them. Their dresses were neatly made, of the skins of seals, sea-otters, foxes, &c.: they had also water-proof cloaks, for rainy weather, formed of a thin membranous substance like bladder. They were more cleanly than the people of Nootka, and were fonder of beads and other ornaments; having not only the ears, but the septum of the nose, perforated to receive various fancied decorations: nay, some of them had a long slit in the under lip, like a secondary mouth, which was also decked out with shells, bones, and beads. Some of their spears, knives, and arrows, were pointed with iron or copper, and some with bone; and these, with all their other implements, were ingeniously made.
In their first approach to the ships, the natives sung a kind of song, one held out a white garment, and another stood with his arms extended, like a cross; but they would not come alongside, though
