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A narrative of the adventures and sufferings of John R. Jewitt; only survivor of the crew of the ship Boston, during a captivity of nearly three years among the savages of Nootka sound: with an account of the manners, mode of living, and religious opinions of the natives ....

Title
A narrative of the adventures and sufferings of John R. Jewitt; only survivor of the crew of the ship Boston, during a captivity of nearly three years among the savages of Nootka sound: with an account of the manners, mode of living, and religious opinions of the natives ....
Author
Jewitt, John R. (John Rodgers), 1783-1821.
Publication
New York, Printed by Daniel Fanshaw, 1816.

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Additional Authors
Alsop, Richard, 1761-1815.
Description
208 p. front.; 19 cm.
Subject
  • Boston (Ship)
  • Indian captivities > British Columbia
  • Jewitt, John R. 1783-1821
  • Nootka Indians > Social life and customs
  • Nootka Sound (B.C.)
  • Nootka language > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Note
  • At foot of p. 208: end of the third edition.
  • "Written by ... Richard Alsop...who drew from Jewett his story, during repeated interviews" cf. Hist. mag. v.4, 1860, p.91.
  • "A list of words in the Nootkian language, the most in use": p. 4
  • "Names of the crew of the ship Boston, belonging to Boston, in Massachusetts ... all of whom, excepting two, were on the 22nd of March, 1808 ... murdered by the savages of Nootka": p. 3
LCCN
20018476 //r943
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library