Sept. 20.
could hardly be calling to us to give him any thing, when we were so distant from him that his voice was at times scarcely audible; nor when we landed did they hold out their hands, as if in expectation of receiving any present from us. They were perfectly naked, with the exception of a small otter skin thrown over their shoulders, which greatly surprised us, for the ground was still thinly covered with snow. Their women and children they had probably sent out of the way when they saw us approaching; and there was not an article of any kind to be seen in their miserable "wigwam." We stayed a short time with them to establish a friendly confidence, and at parting they again shouted to us "Yamma Coyna," which we adopted as a symbol of friendship. They embarked in their canoe soon after we left the shore; and as they pulled out of the cove, close past our ships, they shouted the same words, continuing to do so as long as they could be heard, when at nearly a mile from us, and paddling away as fast as they were able, anticipating the approaching "williwaws," or violent gusts of wind, which followed in the evening, and which they had predicted to us by signs that could not be misunderstood.
The cove appearing to be sufficiently sheltered for our purpose, we made the signal for the ships to enter, and by the time we got on board they were under-weigh. A gentle breeze blew directly out of the harbour, so light that our heavy ships would have scarcely felt its influence, so that we