a friendly traffic. Some of them treated their visitors with a song and dance; but all of them were very cautious, taking care to have their weapons near them. They were of a different race from the natives lately seen on the American shores, being stouter and taller: their clothing was of leather, or skins, well made; and their quivers, and spontoons or spears, were handsomely adorned. The latter were of iron or steel, of European or Asiatic workmanship. Their ears were bored, to receive ornaments; but not their noses or lips. They set great value on knives, and tobacco. The village was found to contain both their summer and winter habitations; the former being large conical huts, the latter a kind of circular or oval vaults, communicating with vaulted under-ground store-rooms. About their habitations were several stages, 10 or 12 feet high, made of bone; on which they dry their fish and skins. They use sledges drawn by dogs. Their canoes are like those on the American coast.
After spending two or three hours with these people, the party returned to the ships; which, having now a fair wind, proceeded toward the north-east; and at noon, on the 11th, were in the middle of Behring's (or Beering's) Straits, about seven leagues from each continent. Advancing northward, our navigators kept both continents in sight, till the evening of the 13th, when they lost sight of land. Next day, steering eastward, they saw the American coast, where a point of land, in lat. 67° 45', long. 194° 51', was named by the Captain, Point Mulgrave, in honour of his noble friend, whose approach to the north pole would now very naturally come into his mind. Persever-
