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On the east side the soil is very good for many miles up, low land for ten miles. Nootka being our Summer quarters till the first of September, when we go to Tasshees, which is situated on the N.E. Thompson employed making a whaling line for our chief. We are very much cast down at the thought of spending the remainder of our days amongst these savages.Ģ2. If we could hear of a ship being either to the northward or southward of us, we could dispatch a canoe with a letter informing of our being in captivity. We have lived very well during the last week, because our chief was afraid for his life, and had Thompson and myself to guard him night and day. I now begin to give up all hopes of ever seeing a Christian country, or a Christian face, for the season being so far advanced and not hearing of the arrival of any ship on the coast, we feel ourselves very unhappy.
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This day a whale drove ashore about six miles from Nootka the natives employed cutting it up and bringing it home in their canoes the stench of it was very disagreeable, but it does not affect the natives.Ģ1. Thompson employed making a sail for our chief's canoe.Ģ0. We constantly fire one of the great guns at twelve o'clock in the night and at four in the morning.ġ9. We walked all last night before our huts to keep watch, and at twelve o' clock fired one of the great guns for an alarm, in order to terrify the natives who had left us the day before, and as a signal to them that we were on our guard.ġ8. They were frightened at seeing us with a brace of pistols and a cutlass by our side.ġ7. This day the natives went home without accomplishing their design. I will leave it to the reader to judge our situation at this time.ġ6. This day arrived two canoes from the Wickeninishes with natives who intended to kill our chief, but having intelligence of it, we were ready to receive them: it was also their intention to have killed Thompson and myself. This day our chief was informed that three of his captains intended to kill him, of which he informed us we were ordered to keep watch over him night and day with a brace of pistols.ġ4. Our chief out whaling returned with no success.ġ3. Our chief out whaling returned with no success.ġ2. The common natives were always for killing us, but the chiefs would not consent to it.ġ0. This day the natives had a meeting at the chief's house to determine what should be done with us in case a ship should arrive. struck one, but his line parted, and he returned with no success.ĩ. Went to prayers as usual for our release.Ĩ. We begin to be very uneasy at not hearing of the arrival of some ship on the coast.ħ. Arrived six canoes from the Wickeninishes with forty bags of herring spawn for our chief.ĥ. Our chief out whaling returned, no success.Ĥ.
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Our chief out whaling returned, no success.ģ. (Boston: Printed for the author, 1807), p. John Jewitt, A Journal, Kept at Nootka Sound by John Rodgers Jewitt, One of the Surviving Crew of the Ship Boston, of Boston, John Salter, Commander, Who Was Massacred on the 22d of March, 1803 Interspersed with Some Account of the Natives, Their Manners and Customs. Document 27: John Jewitt's Journal of His Captivity at Nootka, 1804-1805