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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jewitt, John R. (John Rodgers), 1783-1821.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 37956.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewitt, John R. (John Rodgers), 1783-1821.
- Jewitt, John R.
- Boston (Ship).
- Nuu-chah-nulth Indians.
- Indian captivities.
- Nuu-chah-nulth language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Nuu-chah-nulth language.
- Genre:
- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Autobiographies.
- Controlled vocabularies.
- Physical Description:
- 208 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations
- Edition:
- [Third edition].
- Other Title:
- Narrative of John R. Jewitt.
- Place of Publication:
- New-York : Printed by Daniel Fanshaw, 1816.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- Running title: Narrative of John R. Jewitt.
- "Written by ... Richard Alsop ... [who] drew from Jewitt his story during repeated interviews." cf. Hist. mag, v. 4, 1860, p. 91.
- "End of the third edition." -- p. 208.
- Includes a list of names of the crew of the ship Boston (p. [3]), a list of words in the Nootka language (p. [4]), and a review of the book from the Analectic magazine for June 1815 (p. [5]-9).
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 37956).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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