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sett. The distance is a little over 100 miles. As the weather
seemed settled, I preferred sailing to steaming, and also
because it is much less expensive. The wind was light and
shifty, so that at sundown we had arrived off a small harbour
in an island only eighteen miles distant. There we put in,
intending to sail again at daybreak next morning. But the
weather changed, and it blew so heavily that we dragged our
anchor, and there we were, wind bound three days. As game
abounded, food was plentiful. One of my crew told me why
the harbour was called Lthazit (pronounced nearly lke Clad-
zeet, the last syllable long drawn out). You will notice it is
almost a hissing sound.

“Once upon a time the bloodthirsty Haidas of Queen
Charlotte’s Islands tried to surprise and murder or enslave
a party of Zimshians, who were encamped here, gathering
food of various kinds. It was night, still and starlight.

View of Massett.

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