A narrative of the adventures and sufferings of John R. Jewitt :

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Document Record

Creator
Jewitt, John R. (John Rodgers), 1783-1821., author
Alsop, Richard, 1761-1815.
Title
A narrative of the adventures and sufferings of John R. Jewitt : only survivor of the ship Boston during a captivity of nearly three years among the Indians of Nootka Sound : with an account of the manners, mode of living and religious opinions of the natives.
Published
Middletown [Conn.?] : Printed by Loomis, and Richards and reprinted by Rowland Hurst, Wakefield, and published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown ... London ... , 1816.
Identifier
oocihm.29581
29581
Subject
Jewitt, John R.(John Rodgers),1783-1821.
Boston (Ship)
Boston (Navire)
Indigenous captivities -- British Columbia.
Prisonniers des autochtones -- Colombie-Britannique.
Nuu-chah-nulth.
Nuu-chah-nulth
Document source
Scanned from a CIHM microfiche of the original publication held by the Library of the Public Archives of Canada.
Notes
"Written by ... Richard Alsop ... [who] drew from Jewitt his story during repeated interviews"--Historical magazine, volume 4, 1860, pages 91.
"'Dire scenes of horror on a savage shore, In which, a witness sad, a part I bore.'"
Title from title screen.
208 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.
Collection
Monographs
Language
English
URL
https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.29581