August 1853 Encampment in Senavine Sr. 286 a good meal with little trouble. The Delue- hits eat their small fishes raw, and even alive. They themselves caught Salmon of a pound or two in weight, in some distant ponds of large size, by securing them with little slips of whale-bone. On one occasion we had opportunity of seeing the natives secure a whale. Their watch, at the top of a hill, hav- ing descried the spout of a whale in the straits, it was immediately made known, and sailors put off from the different villages, surrounding the ani- mal and preventing his escape. Every opportunity is taken of sticking lances into his flesh, and as to each lance-head, (from which the stuff drops after its insertion in the whale's body) there is attached a line and inflated seal-skin buoy, so that the motion of the animal is soon much impeded: he cannot dive, and becomes ex- hausted. He is then approached and killed, hauled to the beach of the nearest vil- lage, cut up, and divided among the cap- tors. We saw one brought to our beach which was thus completely cut up and August 1853 Encampment at Senavine Sr. 287 distributed in the course of an hour. The females of the village assisted in this oper- ation, and all placed their hunger while at work, with the choice left is a raw state. Every part is used, from the skin to the entrails, for some purpose or other, the greater part of course food for food. The species we saw was the right whale and from its skin we obtained specimens of the Dacivella, and furus with which it was thickly covered. As novelties, away fishes and invertebrates were now becoming scarce, I turned my attention to the Sea-birds, which were here in somewhat numerous both in species and individuals. Gulls were particularly abun- dant. There were three species of these, the common one, a blue-winged species, and a rarer grey gull, frequented the shores of the bay, or sat on its waters: the third and largest, was usually seen feeding on the small fish in the fresh-water ponds. A single Tern visited the harbor, and was shot; and occasionally a blackish, fork-tailed Jayger was seen. A black guillemot, with white in the wing, was very common along the