but we concluded that perhaps that had learned this word in their trading with Englishmen..." At Nootka Sound he described the Spanish practice of trading guns for children who were slaves of Maquinna, ostensibly to baptize them and save them from cannibalism. "There was one among them whom the sailors called Primo... He told us that he had been destined to be a victim and to be eaten by Chief Macuina together with many others, and that this custom was practiced with the younger prisoners of war, as well as in the ceremonies which were used in such a detestable and horrible sacrifice." Mozina described the approach of Spanish sailors in a longboat. These were soldiers who had arrived on the frigate Concepción from San Blas, commanded by Don Pedro de Alberni, after whom the town Port Alberni is named. After completing his service in Nootka Sound with the Catalan Volunteers in New Spain, Alberni became interim governor of California, where he died in 1803. Later life Upon the expedition's return to Acapulco from Alaska and British Columbia, Suría was given another eight months to prepare his drawings. These were forwarded to Spain. Although Suría's work gained the approval of Malaspina, his rewards were minimal. He remained in his former job as an engraver until his superior Gil died in 1798, whereupon Suría held the position of chief engraver until 1806. He produced some religious art in his later years and died in 1835 in Mexico City. Most of his original sketches for Malaspina are in the Museo Naval. The original Suría journal is kept at Yale University Library. An English translation was made by the Hispanist scholar Henry Raup Wagner in 1936 for the Pacific Historical Review. This version was translated back into Spanish by Justino Fernández for a short book with added biographical details in 1939. Notes References Further reading Tomas de Suria. Quaderno qe contiene el Ramo de Historia Natural y diario de la Espedicion del Círculo del Glovo...... (published by Arsenio Rey Tejerina, see below) Fernández, Justino (editor). Tomás de Suría y su Viaje con Malaspina, 1791. (Mexico City: Libreria de Porrua Hermanos y Cia, 1939) Journal of Tomas de Suría of His Voyage with Malaspina to the Northwest Coast of America in 1791. (Fairfield, Washington: Ye Galleon, 1980. - Editor, Donald C. Cutter Tomàs de Suria a l'expedició Malaspina, Alaska, 1791. Arsenio Rey Tejerina, Generalitat