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fantastic as their occupants, (for which vide sketch.) They were carved in grotesque figures, and remarkably well handled. After encircling the ship, singing, and gesticulating, as if she was to become a good prize, they at length came on board, and were severally presented by the Governor,—not omitting their virtues or vice versâ, when they possessed sufficient notoriety. I observed that those who had become (nominally) Christians were entitled to precedence, but no particular virtues were enumerated as their especial property.
A feast, as it is termed here, of rice and molasses,
NATIVE CHIEF OF SITKA.
