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Title

Noticias de Nutka : an account of Nootka Sound in 1792 / by José Mariano Moziño ; translated and edited by Iris H. Wilson Engstrand ; with a new foreword by Richard Inglis.

Author

Moziño, José Mariano, 1757-1820?

Publication

Seattle : University of Washington Press ; Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, 1991.

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Details

Additional Authors

Engstrand, Iris Wilson.

Description

liv, 142 p., 24 p. of plates : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Account by botanist on expedition of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra of the Nootka Indians on Vancouver Island, their environment and adaptation to it. Introduction by Iris Wislon giving historical and anthropological background.

Uniform Title

Noticias de Nutka. English

Alternative Title

Noticias de Nutka.

Subject

• Moziño, José Mariano, 1757-1820? > Journeys > British Columbia > Nootka Sound
• Nuu-chah-nulth Indians
• Nuu-chah-nulth language > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Natural history > British Columbia > Nootka Sound
• Nootka Sound (B.C.) > Discovery and exploration

Genre/Form

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Note

• Translation of: Noticias de Nutka.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-133) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Concerning the discovery of Nootka or the Island of Mazarredo, its location, climate, natural products in general, the size, physique, adornments, clothing, and weapons of the inhabitants -- 2. Description of their houses, furniture, and utensils; of their food and drink -- 3. System of government of the tais, or sovereign and high priest; about religious beliefs, their worship and superstitions; their funeral rites -- 4. Concerning the dignity of tais and his marriages; fertility of the women; ceremonies with which they celebrate childbirths; accounts of other strange customs -- 5. Certain sacrifices performed by the natives; their occupation in fishing and the movement of their villages according to the seasons; administration of justice; some occupations like that of carpentry -- 6. Method of fishing for whales and sea otter and method of hunting; occupations of the women, and some arts they know -- 7. Concerning the language and its affinity with that of Mexico; the eloquent discourse of Prince Maquinna; of the rhetoric and poetry of the Nootkans, and of their dances -- 8. Concerning their chronology and method of counting the days, months, and years; origin of the population of the island and the small trade of the natives; the arrival of a Spanish ship in 1774. and the Captain Cook's in 1778; commerce in sea otter skins established by the English Captains Gore, King, Hanna, and Meares; later voyages with the same purpose from Ostend and Boston, etc. -- 9. Voyage of the Spanish Commandant Don Esteban Martinez, by whom the port of Nootka was taken; imprisonment of a Portuguese captain later given his freedom; disagreement between Martinez and the English Captain Colnett; and the violent death of Prince Quelequem -- 10. Arrival of Eliza and Alberni in 1790; their industry and reconciliation of Maquinna with the Spanish -- 11. Representation of Meares to the Government of England against the Spanish; agreement of both nations; voyage to Nootka of Don [Juan] Francisco de la Bodega [y Quadra] in order to carry it out; commission given by the viceroy of Mexico to the author for the investigation of natural resources; sociability of the Nootkans; utility of the missions and of the promotion of agriculture -- 12. Arrival of the English Commandant Vancouver; verification of the falsity of Meares's complaints; suspension of the agreement between the Spanish and the English commandants, who sent back their decision to their governments; reflections upon the usefulness of maintaining or abandoning the establishment, and method by which the Spanish could extend the fur trade -- App. A. Brief Dictionary of the Terms That Could Be Learned of the Language of the Natives and Nootka -- App. B. Catalogue of the animals and plants which the authorities of my expedition, Don Jose Mozino and Don Jose Maldonado, have examined and classified according to the system of Linnaeus.

ISBN

0295971037

LCCN

^^^90050981^//r91

OCLC

• 22811367
• SCSB-10173839

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library