JEWITT, John Rodgers. Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings...During a captivity of nearly three years among the Savages of Nootka Sound. Richard Alsop, editor. NY: for the Publishers, [ca 1815]. Second edition.
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JEWITT, John Rodgers (1788-1821). Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings...During a captivity of nearly three years among the Savages of Nootka Sound. Richard Alsop, editor. New York: for the Publishers, [ca 1815].
12mo (170 x 96 mm). Woodcut device on title-page; woodcut frontispiece, woodcut illustrations in-text. (Some browning and fraying, frontispiece reinforced gutter.) 20th-century red morocco; original wrapper (fully backed) bound in. Provenance: L. James West? (early inscription in pencil); Archie W. Shiels (bookplate).
Second edition, "with the exception of Dana's book, the best-known and most popular of the early narratives of adventure on the western coast" (Hill). The Boston, a trading vessel, was seized by natives in the Nootka Sound after the captain insulted the chief; nearly the entire crew, excluding Jewitt and one other member, were massacred. Jewitt's work includes information about the life and habits of his captors, and includes a vocabulary of the Nootka language. Hill 888; Howes A-189; Sabin 36123.
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