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The particulars of the narrative I have thus briefly given had just reached Stanley, and were the subject of conversation among all those who had any idea above that of the price of seal-skins and the profits of the last wreck on their shores. With a fair wind and fine weather we sailed to double Cape Horn, intending to pass through the Straits of Le Maire.
We then went out, and with the saw, which she showed me how to use, and which astonished me very much, when I perceived its effects, the oars were cut up to the proper length. Gimlets I had already from the sea-chest, and nails and hammer we had just obtained from the boat; so that before the forenoon was over, the framework was all ready for nailing on the seal-skins.
I thought of the willows that grew on the island, and fancied I could make a framework by twisting them strongly together, and stretching seal-skins over them. I laboured at this for several weeks, exercising all my ingenuity and no slight stock of patience, to create an object with which I was but imperfectly acquainted.
By degrees they began to breathe more freely, and at last some went out to seek repose in their own huts, while the inmates of Mangivik's dwelling began to turn in for the night. Nootka and Adolay retired to the boudoir, and the men, drawing bear or seal-skins over them, lay down, each where he had feasted. Nazinred alone remained sitting up, the victim of unsatisfied craving.
The three seal-skins first procured were already about half tanned, and were formed into tarpaulins, being split in two lengthwise, sewed together at the ends, and again sewed to the edges of the combings with seal-sinews, forming a cover for the guns, and also by means of a gathering cord of fishing-line looped through their edges, capable of being drawn up and fastened at about the height of the waist of a man when kneeling, thus forming an additional protection against a breaking sea.
A third voyage planned The Resolution and Discovery commissioned Expedition sails Omai taken on board Touch at the Cape of Good Hope Van Diemen's Land New Zealand The Friendly or Tonga Islands reached Acquaintance formed with Feenon His treacherous designs Cook's determined conduct checks the natives Visits Otaheite Omai shows his true character Astonishment of natives on seeing horses ridden Omai landed at Huaheine with his property His bad conduct and wretched fate Desertions at Ulietea Live stock landed Bolabola and other islands visited Unknown islands sighted Cook lands Natives receive him with deep respect Assist the watering party Name of Sandwich Islands given to the group Ships proceed to coast of America Natives come off at Nootka Sound Anchor in Prince William's Sound The ships enter Behring's Straits Turned back by the ice Anchor off Oonalaska Kind behaviour of the Russian authorities The expedition returns to the Sandwich Islands Sail round them, and come to an anchor in Karakavoa Bay Vast numbers of natives come off Cook supposed to be their god Rono Honours paid to him Ceremonies at a temple Ships put to sea Compelled to return Temper of the natives changed Attempts to coerce them Death of Captain Cook and several men His character Captain Clerke succeeds, and makes peace with the natives Ships sail in search of a passage round America Touch at Saint Peter and Saint Paul Courtesy of the Russians Ships again compelled to return by the ice Death of Captain Clerke Captain Gore takes command Sails for Macaohigh price obtained for seal-skins Commanders of French ships ordered to treat the Adventure and Resolution as neutrals Touch at the Cape of Good Hope Steer round Scotland, and reach the Nore 4th of October, 1780 Remarks on Captain Cook's discoveries Notice of his family.
On the west coast, however, the wigwams are rather better, for they are covered with seal-skins. We were detained here several days by the bad weather. The climate is certainly wretched: the summer solstice was now past, yet every day snow fell on the hills, and in the valleys there was rain, accompanied by sleet.
Nay, never start off at a jest, man I have done with the phoca though, I dare say, the Bailie could tell us the value of seal-skins just now." "They are up," said the magistrate, "they are well up the fishing has been unsuccessful lately."
He made us a small double-headed maul, hammers, chisels, and a sort of gimblets or wimbles, which performed very well. He even made a bullet-mould, and an instrument to bore cartouch-boxes, which he made from the trucks of our gun-carriages, covering them with seal-skins, and contrived to make them not only convenient, but neat.
Petersburg, and we have had to be content with the résumé brought out in one of the journals of the Geographical Society in 1839. At the same period a master in the Royal Navy, James Weddell by name, was appointed by an Edinburgh firm to the command of an expedition, to obtain seal-skins in the southern seas, where two years were to be spent.
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