The powow : being a complete and an exact description of an Indian banquet, held betwixt two friendly tribes of Indians, in the southerly part of North-America, A.D. 1777 / by John Rhodes, a seaman of Workington, who was a prisoner among the most uncultivated savages, in different tribes, thirteen years, and five years in different prisons amongst the Spaniards, in South-America, and is now alive, tho' much crippled, in the 54th year of his age.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rhodes, John, 1755-

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 16072.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of Central America.

Indian captivities.

Genre:

Captivity narratives.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

144 pages ; 12 cm

Place of Publication:

Otsego [N.Y.] : Printed by E. Phinney, 1808.

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Notes:

Appendix (p. [67]-144) containing an "account of Mr. Rhodes' first captivity by a tribe of savages, called Woolaways ..." is extracted from "The surprising adventures and sufferings of John Rhodes", New-York, 1798 ; Newark, 1799.

"There is nothing in this narrative to attest its truth, and the internal evidence is not sufficient to settle the question of its veracity ... It contains some curious details of the customs of the Indians of Central America."--Field, Indian bibl., 1873, p. 330.

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