The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . THE FIGHTS AND ADVENTURES OF THE CREW OF THE RUSSIAN AMERICAN COMPANYS SHIP THE ST. NICHOLAI, A Sojourn of a Year amongst the hostile Natives of theNorthWest Coast of America; November, 1808. BY THE UR ship was bound for the coast of NewAlbion. On the 29th of September, 1808,we were opposite Vancouvers Cape Flat-tery, in 48° 25 N. latitude. We followedthe coast during several days, for the pur-pose of sketching it. The natives cameout in great numbers, and sometimes wewe
The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . THE FIGHTS AND ADVENTURES OF THE CREW OF THE RUSSIAN AMERICAN COMPANYS SHIP THE ST. NICHOLAI, A Sojourn of a Year amongst the hostile Natives of theNorthWest Coast of America; November, 1808. BY THE UR ship was bound for the coast of NewAlbion. On the 29th of September, 1808,we were opposite Vancouvers Cape Flat-tery, in 48° 25 N. latitude. We followedthe coast during several days, for the pur-pose of sketching it. The natives cameout in great numbers, and sometimes wewere surrounded by more than one hundredof their boats, which, although small, gen-erally held from three or four to ten never allowed more than three at a time to come onboard — a caution which seemed the more necessary, as theywere all armed. Several of them had muskets; others hadarrows pointed with stags antlers, iron lances without han-dles, and bone forks fixed on long poles; moreover, theyhad a species of arms made of whale-ribs, of the shape ofa Turkish sabre, two inches and a half long, a quarter ofan inch thick, and blunt on both edges: this weapon, weunderstood, they used in their night attacks, so commonamong these savages, killing their foes while 362 A SIIIFWHECKED CREW ON THE N.
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