. A voyage round the world [microform] : but more particularly to the north-west coast of America, performed in 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon : dedicated, by permission to Sir Joseph Banks, Voyages round the world; Botany; Botanique. NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. (Ganymede like) to prepare and adminifter this delicious potation to his mafter. He firft begins by chewing a fufficient quantity, till It IS well mafticated 3 this is put into a neat wooden bowl, made for the purpofe, and a fmall quantity of water being poured ove
. A voyage round the world [microform] : but more particularly to the north-west coast of America, performed in 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon : dedicated, by permission to Sir Joseph Banks, Voyages round the world; Botany; Botanique. NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. (Ganymede like) to prepare and adminifter this delicious potation to his mafter. He firft begins by chewing a fufficient quantity, till It IS well mafticated 3 this is put into a neat wooden bowl, made for the purpofe, and a fmall quantity of water being poured over, It IS well fqueezed, and the liquor afterwards ftrained through a piece of cloth. The delicious beverage is now compleat, and is drank with the higheft relifli. This root is of ?- intoxicating nature, but feems to flupify rather than exhilerate the fpirits. Its effeds are very pernicious,' If we may judge by the old prieft. who appeared greatly emaciated, and his body was covered with a white fcurf, which had the appear- ance of the leprofy. The wind ftill kept at North Eaft, and Eaft North Eaft, but from the 13th to the i6th, a very heavy fwell fet into the bay from the South Eaft, which caufed tlie vefTel to. roll very much. On the 14th, we perceived the natives very bufily employed on the hill, at the South Eaft extreme of the illand j and by noon on the 15th, their work was fo far advanced, that we could plainly difcern they were ereaing a houfe, tliough the diftance from us was very confiderable. The fame afternoon, all the canoes left both (hips, and not one returned in the evening, which, till now had never been the cafe, for, as an with women was allowed, (indeed it could noteafily be prevented) our people never tailed to have a number on board every night. This made us fuf- ped: that the people were tabooed, and our conjeaures proved to be right; for during the whole of the j6th. not a fingle canoe ap- peared in the bay, but the funnnit of the mountain r
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