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• 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 ; embellished with a plate, representing the ship in possession of the savages.
  
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• Author/Creator:Jewitt, John R. (John Rodgers), 1783-1821.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Alsop, Richard, 1761-1815.
  
• Published/Created:New York : printed by Daniel Fanshaw, 1816.
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: F5817.51 .N2 1816
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Jewitt, John R. (John Rodgers), 1783-1821.
  Boston (Ship)
  Nootka Indians--Social life and customs.
  Indian captivities--British Columbia.
  Nootka language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
  Nootka Sound (B.C.)
  
• Edition:Third edition
  
• Description:208 pages : frontispiece ; 19 cm
  
• Additional formats:Available also online.
  
• Notes: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.