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13 - Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound by John R. Jewitt · Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound

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  Speaker 1: Section thirteen of a Captivity of nearly three years among
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  Speaker 1: the Savages of Nootka's Sound by John R. Jewett. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Our situation had
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  Speaker 1: now become unpleasant in the extreme. The summer was so
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  Speaker 1: far advanced that we nearly despaired of a ship arriving
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  Speaker 1: to our relief, and with that expectation, almost relinquished the
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  Speaker 1: hope of ever having it in our power to quit
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  Speaker 1: this savage land. We were treated, too, with less indulgence
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  Speaker 1: than before, both Thompson and myself being obliged, in addition
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  Speaker 1: to our other employments, to perform the laborious task of
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  Speaker 1: cutting and collecting fuel, which we had to bring on
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  Speaker 1: our shoulders from nearly three miles distance, as it consisted
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  Speaker 1: wholly of dry trees, all of which near the village
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  Speaker 1: had been consumed. To add to this, we suffered much
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  Speaker 1: abuse from the common people, who, when Makina or some
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  Speaker 1: of the chiefs were not present, would insult us, calling
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  Speaker 1: us wretched slaves, asking us where was our tayee or captain,
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  Speaker 1: making gestures signifying that his head had been cut off,
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  Speaker 1: and that they would do the like to us. Though
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  Speaker 1: they generally took good care at such times to keep
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  Speaker 1: well out of Thompson's reach, as they had more than
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  Speaker 1: once experienced, to their cost, the strength of his fist.
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  Speaker 1: This conduct was not only provoking and grating to our
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  Speaker 1: feelings in the highest degree, but it convinced us of
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  Speaker 1: the ill disposition of these savages towards us, and rendered
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  Speaker 1: us fearful lest they might, at some time or other
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  Speaker 1: persuade or force Makina and the chiefs to put us
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  Speaker 1: to death. We were also often brought to great distress
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  Speaker 1: for the want of provisions, so far as to be
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  Speaker 1: reduced to collect a scanty supply of mussels and limpets
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  Speaker 1: from the rocks, and sometimes even compelled to part with
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  Speaker 1: some of our most necessary articles of clothing in order
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  Speaker 1: to purchase food for our subsistence. This was, however, principally
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  Speaker 1: owing to the inhabitants themselves experiencing a great scarcity of
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  Speaker 1: provisions this season, there having been, in the first place,
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  Speaker 1: but very few salmon caught at Friendly Cove, a most
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  Speaker 1: unusual circumstance, as they generally abound there in the spring,
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  Speaker 1: which was by the natives attributed to their having been
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  Speaker 1: driven away by the blood of our men who had
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  Speaker 1: been thrown into the sea, which with true savage inconsistency,
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  Speaker 1: excited their murmurs against Makina, who had proposed cutting off
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  Speaker 1: our ship. Relying on this supply, they had, in the
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  Speaker 1: most inconsiderate manner, squandered away their winter's stock of provisions,
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  Speaker 1: so that in a few days after their return it
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  Speaker 1: was entirely expended. Nor were the King and the chiefs
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  Speaker 1: much more fortunate in their whaling, even after I had
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  Speaker 1: furnished Makina with the improved weapon for that purpose. But
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  Speaker 1: four whales having been taken during the season which closes
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  Speaker 1: the last of May, including one that had been struck
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  Speaker 1: by Makina and escaped, and was afterwards driven on shore
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  Speaker 1: about six miles from Nootka, in almost a state of putridity.
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  Speaker 1: These afforded but a short supply to a population, including
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  Speaker 1: all ages and sexes, of no less than fifteen hundred persons,
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  Speaker 1: and of a character so very improvident, that, after feasting
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  Speaker 1: most gluttonously whenever a whale was caught, they were, several
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  Speaker 1: times for a week together reduced to the necessity of
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  Speaker 1: eating once a day, and of collecting cockles and mussels
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  Speaker 1: from the rocks for their food, and even after the
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  Speaker 1: cod and halibut fishing commenced in June, in which they
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  Speaker 1: met with tolerable success. Such was the savage caprice of Makina,
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  Speaker 1: that he would often give us but little to eat,
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  Speaker 1: finally ordering us to buy a canoe and fishing implements
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  Speaker 1: and go out ourselves and fish, or we should have
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do. This, we were compelled to part with
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  Speaker 1: our greatcoats, which were not only important to us as garments,
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  Speaker 1: but of which we made our beds, spreading them under
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  Speaker 1: us when we slept from our want of skill. However,
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  Speaker 1: in this new employ we met with no success on
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  Speaker 1: discovering which Makina ordered us to remain at home. Another thing,
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  Speaker 1: which to me in particular proved an almost constant source
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  Speaker 1: of vexation and disgust, and which living among them, had
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  Speaker 1: not in the least reconciled me, too, was their extreme filthiness,
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  Speaker 1: not only in eating fish, especially the whale, when in
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  Speaker 1: a state of offensive putridity, but while at their meals,
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  Speaker 1: of making a practice of taking the vermin from their
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  Speaker 1: heads or clothes and eating them by turns, thrusting their
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  Speaker 1: fingers into their hair, and into the dish, and spreading
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  Speaker 1: their garments over the tubs in which the provision was cooking,
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  Speaker 1: in order to set in motion their inhabitants. Fortunately for Thompson,
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  Speaker 1: he regarded this much less than myself, and when I
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  Speaker 1: used to point out to him any instance of their
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  Speaker 1: filthiness in this respect, he would laugh and reply, never mind, John,
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  Speaker 1: the more good things, the better. I must. However, do
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  Speaker 1: Makina the justice to state that he was much neaer,
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  Speaker 1: both in his person and eating, than were the others,
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  Speaker 1: as was likewise his queen, owing no doubt to his
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  Speaker 1: intercourse with foreigners, which had given him ideas of cleanliness.
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  Speaker 1: For I never saw either of them eat any of
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  Speaker 1: these animals, but on the contrary, they appeared not much
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  Speaker 1: to relish this taste in others. Their garments also were
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  Speaker 1: much cleaner, Makina having been accustomed to give his away
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  Speaker 1: when they became soiled, till after he discovered that Thompson
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  Speaker 1: and myself kept ours clean by washing them, when he
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  Speaker 1: used to make Thompson do the same for him. Yet,
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  Speaker 1: amidst this state of endurance and disappointment, in hearing repeatedly
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  Speaker 1: of the arrival of ships at the north and south,
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  Speaker 1: most of which proved to be idle reports. While expectation
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  Speaker 1: was almost wearied out in looking for them, we did
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  Speaker 1: not wholly despond relying on the mercy of the Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Being to offer up to whom our devotions on the
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  Speaker 1: days appointed for his worship was our chief consolation and support.
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  Speaker 1: Though we were sometimes obliged by our task masters to
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  Speaker 1: infringe upon the sabbath, which was to me a source
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  Speaker 1: of much regret, we were nevertheless treated at times with
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  Speaker 1: much kindness by Makina, who would give us a plenty
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  Speaker 1: of the best that he had to eat, and occasionally
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  Speaker 1: some small present of cloth for a garment, promising me
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  Speaker 1: that if any ship should arrive within a hundred miles
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  Speaker 1: of Nootka, he would send a canoe with a letter
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  Speaker 1: from me to the captain, so that he might come
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  Speaker 1: to our release. These flattering promises and marks of attention were, however,
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  Speaker 1: at those times when he thought himself in personal danger
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  Speaker 1: from a mutinous spirit, which the scarcity of provisions had
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  Speaker 1: excited among the natives, who, like true savages, imputed all
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  Speaker 1: their public calamities of whatever kind to the misconduct of
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  Speaker 1: their chief, or when he was apprehensive of an attack
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  Speaker 1: from some of the other tribes, who were irritated with
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  Speaker 1: him for cutting off the Boston as it had prevented
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  Speaker 1: ships from coming to trade with them, and were constantly
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  Speaker 1: alarming him with idle stories of vessels that were preparing
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  Speaker 1: to come against him and exterminate both him and his people.
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  Speaker 1: At such times, he made us keep guard over him
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  Speaker 1: both night and day, armed with cutlasses and pistols, being
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  Speaker 1: apparently afraid to trust any of his own men. At
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  Speaker 1: one time it was a general revolt of his people
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  Speaker 1: that he apprehended. Then three of his principal chiefs, among
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  Speaker 1: whom was his elder brother, had conspired to take away
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  Speaker 1: his life, and at length he fancied that a small
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  Speaker 1: party of Klauquots, between whom and the Nookians little friendship subsisted,
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  Speaker 1: had come to Nootka under a pretensive trade for the
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  Speaker 1: sole purpose of murdering him and his family, telling us,
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  Speaker 1: probably to sharpen our vigilance, that their intention was to
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  Speaker 1: kill us. Likewise, and so strongly were his fears excited
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  Speaker 1: on this occasion that he not only ordered us to
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  Speaker 1: keep near him armed by day whenever he went out,
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  Speaker 1: and to patrol at night before his house while they remained,
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  Speaker 1: but to continue the same guard for three days after
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  Speaker 1: they were gone, and to fire at one and at
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  Speaker 1: four in the morning one of the great guns, to
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  Speaker 1: let them know, if, as he suspected, they were lurking
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  Speaker 1: in the neighborhood, that he was on his guard. While
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  Speaker 1: he was thus favorably disposed toward us, I took an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to inform him of the ill treatment that we
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  Speaker 1: frequently received from his people, and the insults that were
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  Speaker 1: offered us by some of the stranger tribes in calling
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  Speaker 1: us white slaves and loading us with other opprobrious terms.
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  Speaker 1: He was much displeased, and said that his subjects should
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  Speaker 1: not be allowed to treat us ill, and that if
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  Speaker 1: any of the strangers did it, he wished us to
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  Speaker 1: punish the offenders with death, at the same time directing
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  Speaker 1: us for our security to go constantly armed. This permission
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  Speaker 1: was soon improved by Thompson to the best advantage. For
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  Speaker 1: a few days, after having gone to the pond to
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  Speaker 1: wash some of our clothes and blanket for Makina, several
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  Speaker 1: Wiccaninnish who were then at Nootka, came thither, and, seeing
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  Speaker 1: him washing the clothes and the blankets spread upon the
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  Speaker 1: grass to dry. They began, according to custom, to insult him,
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  Speaker 1: and one of them, bolder than the others, walked over
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  Speaker 1: the blanket. Thompson was highly incensed and threatened the Indian
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  Speaker 1: with d death if he repeated the offense, But he,
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  Speaker 1: in contempt of the threat, trampled upon the blanket. When
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  Speaker 1: drawing his cutlass without further ceremony, Thompson cut off his head,
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  Speaker 1: on seeing which the others ran off at full speed.
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  Speaker 1: Thompson bent, gathering up the clothes and blanket on which
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  Speaker 1: were the marks of the Indian's dirty feet, and taking
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  Speaker 1: with him the head. Returned and informed the king of
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  Speaker 1: what had passed, who was much pleased and highly commended
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  Speaker 1: his conduct. This had a favorable effect for us, not
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  Speaker 1: only on the stranger tribes, but the inhabitants themselves, who
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  Speaker 1: treated us afterwards with less disrespect. In the latter part
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  Speaker 1: of July, Makina informed me that he was going to
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  Speaker 1: war with the ae Charts, a tribe about fifty miles
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  Speaker 1: to the south, on account of some controversy that had
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  Speaker 1: arisen the preceding summer, and that I must make a
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  Speaker 1: number of daggers for his men. And cheek toolfs for
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  Speaker 1: his chiefs, which, having completed, he wished me to make
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  Speaker 1: for his own use a weapon of quite a different
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  Speaker 1: form in order to dispatch his enemy by one blow
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  Speaker 1: on the head. It being the calculation of these nations
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  Speaker 1: on going to war, to surprise their adversaries while asleep.
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  Speaker 1: This was a steel dagger, or, more properly, a spike
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  Speaker 1: of about six inches long, made very sharp, set at
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  Speaker 1: right angles in an iron handle of fifteen inches long,
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  Speaker 1: terminating at the lower end in a crook or turn,
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  Speaker 1: so as to prevent its being wrenched from the hand,
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  Speaker 1: and at the upper in a round knob or head,
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  Speaker 1: from whence the spike protruded. This instrument I polished highly,
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  Speaker 1: and the more to please Makina, formed on the back
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  Speaker 1: of the knob the resemblance of a man's head, with
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  Speaker 1: the mouth open, substituting for eyes black beads, which I
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  Speaker 1: fastened in with red sealing wax. This pleased him much,
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  Speaker 1: and was greatly admired by his chiefs, who wanted me
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  Speaker 1: to make similar ones for them, But Makina would not
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  Speaker 1: suffer it, reserving for himself alone this weapon. When these
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  Speaker 1: people have finally determined on war. They make it an
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  Speaker 1: invariable practice for three or four weeks prior to the
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  Speaker 1: expedition to go into the water five or six times
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  Speaker 1: a day, when they wash and scrub themselves from head
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  Speaker 1: to foot with bushes intermixed with briars, so that their
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  Speaker 1: bodies and faces will often be entirely covered with blood.
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  Speaker 1: During this severe exercise, they are continually exclaiming wokash quahouts
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  Speaker 1: tichame a weal wik etish tao ilf kar sab matemas
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  Speaker 1: wiksish to hawk matamas e yaish ka shittel ah, smooth
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  Speaker 1: tish war rich matemas, which signifies good or great God.
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  Speaker 1: Let me live, not be sick, find the enemy, not
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  Speaker 1: fear him, find him asleep, and kill a great many
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  Speaker 1: of them. During the whole of this period they have
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  Speaker 1: no intercourse with their women, and for a week before
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  Speaker 1: setting out abstained from feasting or any kind of merriment,
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  Speaker 1: appearing thoughtful, gloomy and morose, and for the three last
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  Speaker 1: days are almost constantly in the water, both by day
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  Speaker 1: and night, scrubbing and lacerating themselves in a terrible manner.
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  Speaker 1: Makina having informed Thompson and myself that he should take
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  Speaker 1: us with him. Was very solicitous that we should bathe
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  Speaker 1: and scrub ourselves in the same way with them, telling
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  Speaker 1: me that it would harden our skins so that the
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  Speaker 1: weapons of the enemy would not pierce them. But as
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  Speaker 1: we felt no great inclination to amuse ourselves in this manner,
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  Speaker 1: we declined it. The expedition consisted of forty canoes, carrying
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  Speaker 1: from ten to twenty men each. Thompson and myself armed
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  Speaker 1: ourselves with cutlasses and pistols, but the natives, although they
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  Speaker 1: had a plenty of European arms, took with them only
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  Speaker 1: their daggers and cheetolths, with a few bows and arrows,
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  Speaker 1: the latter being about a yard in length and pointed
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  Speaker 1: with copper musselshell or bone. The bows are four feet
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  Speaker 1: and a half long, with strings made of whale sinew.
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  Speaker 1: To go to a ech chart, we ascended from twenty
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  Speaker 1: to thirty miles a river about the size of that
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  Speaker 1: of Tassis, the banks of which are high and covered
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  Speaker 1: with wood. At midnight we came in sight of the village,
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  Speaker 1: which was situated on the west bank near the shore,
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  Speaker 1: on a steep hill, difficult of access and well calculated
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  Speaker 1: for defense. It consisted of fifteen or sixteen houses, smaller
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  Speaker 1: than those at Nootka and built in the same style,
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  Speaker 1: but compactly placed by Mackina's directions. The attack was deferred
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  Speaker 1: until the first appearance of dawn, as he said, that
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  Speaker 1: was the time when men slept the soundest at length,
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  Speaker 1: all being ready for the attack, we landed with the
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  Speaker 1: greatest silence, and going around so as to come upon
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  Speaker 1: the foe in the rear, clambered up the hill, and
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  Speaker 1: while the natives, as is their custom, entered the several huts,
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  Speaker 1: creeping on all fours, my comrade and myself stationed ourselves
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  Speaker 1: without to intercept those who should attempt to escape or
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  Speaker 1: come to the aid of their friends. I wished, if possible,
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  Speaker 1: not to stain my hands in the blood of any
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  Speaker 1: fellow creature. And though Thompson would gladly have put to
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  Speaker 1: death all the savages in the country, he was too
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  Speaker 1: brave to think of attacking a sleeping enemy. Having entered
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  Speaker 1: the houses on the war whoop being given by Makina,
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  Speaker 1: as he seized the head of the chief and gave
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  Speaker 1: him the fatal blow, all proceeded to the work of death.
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  Speaker 1: The a e charts being thus surprised, were unable to
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  Speaker 1: make resistance, and, with the exception of a very few
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  Speaker 1: who were so fortunate as to make their escape, were
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  Speaker 1: all killed or taken prisoners on condition of becoming slaves
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  Speaker 1: to their captors. I had the good fortune to take
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  Speaker 1: four captives, whom Makina, as a favor, permitted me to
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  Speaker 1: consider as mine and occasionally employ them in fishing for me.
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  Speaker 1: As for Tom Sumpson, who thirsted for revenge, he had
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  Speaker 1: no wish to take any prisoners, but with his cutlass,
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  Speaker 1: the only weapon he would employ against them, succeeded in
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  Speaker 1: killing seven stout fellows who came to attack him, an
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  Speaker 1: act which obtained him great credit with Makina and the chiefs,
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  Speaker 1: who after this held him in much higher estimation and
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  Speaker 1: gave him the appellation of chi Il Sumahar, it being
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  Speaker 1: the name of a very celebrated warrior of their nation
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  Speaker 1: in ancient times, whose exploits were the constant theme of
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  Speaker 1: their praise. After having put to death all the old
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  Speaker 1: and infirm of either sex, as is the barbarous practice
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  Speaker 1: of these people, and destroyed the buildings, we re embarked
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  Speaker 1: with our booty in our canoes for Noutka where we
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  Speaker 1: were received with great demonstrations of joy by the women
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  Speaker 1: and children, accompanying our war Whi song with a most
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  Speaker 1: furious drumming on the houses. The next day a great
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  Speaker 1: feast was given by Makina in celebration of his victory,
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  Speaker 1: which was terminated, as usual, with a dance by Satsatsaksis.
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  Speaker 1: Repeated applications had been made to Makina by a number
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  Speaker 1: of kings or chiefs to purchase me, especially after he
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  Speaker 1: had showed them the harpoon I had made for him,
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  Speaker 1: which he took much pride in, but he constantly refused
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  Speaker 1: to part with me on any terms. Among these, the
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  Speaker 1: king of the Wiccaninish was particularly solicitous to obtain me,
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  Speaker 1: having twice applied to Makina for that purpose, once in
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  Speaker 1: a very formal manner, by sending his messenger with four canoes, who,
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  Speaker 1: as he approached the shore, decorated in their highest style,
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  Speaker 1: with a white down on his head, et cetera, declared
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  Speaker 1: that he came to buy to a Johannus, the name
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  Speaker 1: by which I was known to them, for his master,
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  Speaker 1: and that he had brought for that purpose four young
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  Speaker 1: male slaves, two highly ornamented canoes, such a number of
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  Speaker 1: the skins of medamelth and of the court loch or
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  Speaker 1: sea otter, and so many fathoms of cloth and ewah.
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  Speaker 1: While as he mentioned the different articles, they were pointed
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  Speaker 1: out or held up by his attendants. But even this
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  Speaker 1: tempting offer had no influence on Makina, who, in the
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  Speaker 1: latter part of the summer was again very strongly urged
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  Speaker 1: to sell me by Ulatilla, or as he is generally called,
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  Speaker 1: machi Ulatilla, chief of the Claitzarts, who had come to
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  Speaker 1: Nootka on a visit. This chief, who could speak tolerable English,
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  Speaker 1: had much more the appearance of a civilized man than
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  Speaker 1: any of the savages that I saw. He appeared to
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  Speaker 1: be about thirty, was rather small in his person, but
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  Speaker 1: extremely well formed, with a skin almost as fair as
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  Speaker 1: that of an European, good features, and a countenance expressive
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  Speaker 1: of candor and amiableness, and which was almost always brightened
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  Speaker 1: with a smile. He was much nearer, both in his
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  Speaker 1: dress and person than any of the other chiefs, seldom
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  Speaker 1: wearing paint except upon his eyebrows, which, after the custom
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  Speaker 1: of his country, were plucked out, and a few strips
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  Speaker 1: of the pelpeth on the lower part of his face.
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  Speaker 1: He always treated me with much kindness, was fond of
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  Speaker 1: conversing with me in English and in his own language,
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  Speaker 1: asking me many questions relative to my country, its manners, customs,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera, and appeared to take a strong interest in
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  Speaker 1: my fate, telling me that if he could persuade Makina
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  Speaker 1: to part with me, he would put me on board
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  Speaker 1: the first ship that came to his country, a promise
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  Speaker 1: which from his subsequent conduct I have good reason to
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  Speaker 1: think he would have performed as my deliverance at length
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  Speaker 1: from captivity and suffering, was under the favor of divine Providence,
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  Speaker 1: wholly owing to him the only letter that ever reached
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  Speaker 1: an European or American vessel, out of sixteen that I
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: wrote at different times and sent to various parts of
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: the coast, having been delivered by him in person. So
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: much pleased was I with this man's behavior to me
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: while at Nutka, that I made for him a cheat
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: tooolf which I burnished highly and engraved with figures. With
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: this he was greatly delighted. I also would have made
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: for him a harpoon. Would Makina have consented with hearts
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: full of dejection and almost lost to hope. No ship
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: having appeared off Nootkah this season, did my my companion
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: and myself accompanied the tribe on their removal in September
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: to TASiS, relinquishing in consequence for six months, even the
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: remotest expectation of relief and of Section thirteen