ficulty in entering into trading relations;
but as they desired pieces of iron about ten inches long by three wide,
and it was rather a scarce article on board, very little, chiefly skins,
was purchased. At first only one man came on board, and as he saw only
two or three people on the Discovery, he went to the Resolution and
brought over some of his friends, who rushed the deck with their knives
drawn. However, the crew quickly ran up with their cutlasses ready, so
the natives retired, remarking that the white men's knives were longer
than theirs. At the Resolution they broke every glass scuttle they could
reach with their paddles, says Burney. Cook points out that they must
have been quite ignorant of the use of firearms, and concludes by saying:

"However, after all these tricks, we had the good fortune to leave them
as ignorant as we found them, for they neither heard nor saw a musket
fired unless at birds."

The leak on the Resolution was attended to, and in places the oakum
caulking was found to have disappeared completely; one writer says it was
caused by rats, and that the ship was saved by rubbish having choked up
the leak.

TWO SETS OF TEETH.

Bad weather detaining them, Cook had an opportunity of studying the
inhabitants. He had with him a description of the Esquimaux, by Crantz,
and found these men to be very similar in appearance, dress, and
appliances. They all had the bottom lip slit horizontally, giving them
the appearance of having two mouths. In these slits pieces of bone were
fixed to which were tied other pieces, forming a great impediment to
their speech, and in some cases giving the idea that the wearer had two
sets of teeth. Some also had pieces of bone, cord, or beads run through
the cartilage of the nose, and all had their faces plentifully smeared
with black and red paint.

After examining an inlet, which received the name of Sandwich Sound, they
got away, steering to the south-west past Cape Elizabeth, sighted on that
Princess's birthday, which they hoped would prove the western extremity
of the coast, but on getting round, land was reported further on to the
west-south-west, and a gale sprang up, forcing them off their course. In
two days they worked back again, discovering more land behind what they
had seen already. This Cook believed to be Cape Saint Hermogenes
mentioned by Behring, but his chart was so inaccurate he could not
positively identify it, or any other place mentioned on it