[66]. Vol. i. p. 146. He has also given a representation of them on a plate there inserted.
[67]. The rattling-ball found by Steller, who attended Beering in 1741, at no great distance from this Sound, seems to be for a similar use. See Muller, p. 256.
[68]. We are also indebted to him for many remarks in this chapter, interwoven with those of Captain Cook, as throwing considerable light on many parts of his journal.
[69]. With regard to these numerals, Mr. Anderson observes, that the words corresponding to ours, are not certain after passing three; and therefore he marks those, about whose position he is doubtful, with a point of interrogation.
[70]. In his Account of Kodjak, p. 32, 34.
[71]. There is a circumstance mentioned by Muller, in his account of Beering’s voyage to the coast of America in 1741, which seems to decide this question. His people found iron at the Schumagin Islands, as may be fairly presumed from the following quotation. “Un seul homme avoit un couteau pendu à sa ceinture, qui parut fort singulier à nos gens par sa figure. Il étoit long de huit pouces, et fort épais, et large à l’endroit où devoit être la pointe. On ne peut savoir quel étoit l’usage de cet outil.” Découvertes des Russes, p. 274.
If there was iron amongst the natives on this part of the American coast, prior to the discovery of it by the Russians, and before there was any traffic with them carried on from Kamtschatka, what reason can there be to make the least doubt of the people of Prince William’s Sound, as well as those of Schumagin’s Islands, having got this metal from the only probable source, the European settlements on the north-east coast of this continent?
[72]. Captain Cook means Muller’s; of which a translation had been published in London, some time before he sailed.
[73]. In naming this and Mount St. Augustin, Captain Cook was directed by our Calendar.
[74]. Captain Cook having here left a blank which he had not filled up with any particular name, Lord Sandwich directed, with the greatest propriety, that it should be called Cook’s River.