Were I to affix a name to the people of Nootka, as a distinct nation, I would call them Wakashians; from the word wakash, which was very frequently in their mouths.  It seemed to express applause, approbation, and friendship.  For when they appeared to be satisfied, or well pleased with any thing they saw, or any incident that happened, they would, with one voice, call out, wakash! wakash! I shall take my leave of them, with remarking, that, differing so essentially, as they certainly do, in their persons, their customs, and language, from the inhabitants of the islands in the Pacific Ocean, we cannot suppose their respective progenitors to have been united in the same tribe, or to have had any intimate connection, when they emigrated from their original settlements, into the places where we now find their descendants.

My account of the transactions in Nootka Sound would be imperfect, without adding the astronomical and nautical observations made by us, while the ships were in that station.

Latitude.

The latitude of the \ Sun 49 deg. 36’ 1”, 15"’
observatory, by } Stars / South 49 36 8, 36
/ \ North 49 36 10, 30
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The mean of these means 49 36 6, 47 north.

Longitude.

| Twenty sets   \
|  taken on the  |  233 deg.  26’  18”, 7"’
|  21st and 23d  |
|  of March.    /
|
The longitude, by      /  Ninety-three  \
lunar observations.  \   taken at the  }  233   18    6,  6
|  observatory  /

| Twenty-four   \
|  taken on the  |  233    7   16,  7
|  1st, 2d, and  |
|  3d of May.   /
The mean of these means                     233   17   14,  0 East.

But by reducing each set, taken     |
before we arrived in the Sound,    |
and after we left it, by the time-  \      233 deg.  17’  30”, 5"’
keeper, and adding them up          /
with those made on the spot,       |
the mean of the 137 sets, will be  |

Longitude by the / Greenwich rate 235 deg. 46’ 51”, 0"’
time-keeper \ Ulietea rate 333 59 24, 0

From the results of the last fifteen days observations of equal altitudes of the sun, the daily rate of the time-keeper was losing, on mean time, 7”; and on the 16th of April, she was too slow for mean time by 16^h 0^m 58",45.  There was found an irregularity in her rate greater than at any time before.  It was thought proper to reject the first five days, as the rate in them differed so much from that of the fifteen following; and even in these, each day differed from another more than usual.

Variation of the Compass.