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"Where did they come from?" they pointed to the southeast [Buckland River].
There were about 300 persons of both sexes. They are tall, well
built, with pleasant faces, and they could have been called
a very good looking people if their features had not reflected
some kind of savage ferocity. Both men and women wear their
hair braided in two braids down the sides. The former adorn
themselves with cufflinks [labrets] from walrus bone put through
openings pierced at both sides of the mouth. The latter paint
their eyes at the top and the bottom, joining these circles
with a dark blue line across the nose and chin of a dark blue
color. The rich ones wear crowns and necklaces of large blue
glass beads. Men and women dress, according to their wealth,
in marten or deer parkas and seal trousers and boots. 5

Having finished dinner, we began to prepare for the trip.
Although the wind still blew rather strongly from the W, we
hoped to maneuver with the ebb tide, and especially hastened
to leave because we noticed that the Indians, entirely unarmed
before with the exception of their long knives behind their
shoulders, not having received the desired powder and lead,
started to gather in crowds completely armed, and to provoke
our people. Putting everything into the longboat, we pushed
off, and rowing to the deep, set sail and began to tack. But
this did not last long. Toward evening, the wind began to
grow stronger and developed such heavy seas that every wave
got into the longboat. It started to get dark, but we, know-
ing the direction, held our course and preferred to get drenched