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VISITED BY INDIANS.
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were all busily employed, launching their canoes, and pushing off towards the ship, which was a novel spectacle to us all, as we had never seen people of this description before. At three o'clock p.m. we anchored under Cape Disappointment in Baker's Bay, about a mile from the village, and were soon visited by about 30 canoes, with men, women, and children, most of whom had flat heads. We put sentries on immediately, and ran our boarding defence out, to the great astonishment of the natives.