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Noticias de Nutka : an account of Nootka Sound in 1792
Record details
- ISBN: 0295971037
- ISBN: 9780295971032
- ISBN: 0888947267
- ISBN: 9780888947260
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Physical Description:
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liv, 142 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm - Edition: 1st paperback ed.
- Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1991.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Translation of: Noticias de Nutka. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-133) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Concerning the discovery of Nootka or the Island of Mazarredo, its location, climate, natural products in general, the size, physique, adornments, clothing, and weapons of the inhabitants -- 2. Description of their houses, furniture, and utensils; of their food and drink -- 3. System of government of the tais, or sovereign and high priest; about religious beliefs, their worship and superstitions; their funeral rites -- 4. Concerning the dignity of tais and his marriages; fertility of the women; ceremonies with which they celebrate childbirths; accounts of other strange customs -- 5. Certain sacrifices performed by the natives; their occupation in fishing and the movement of their villages according to the seasons; administration of justice; some occupations like that of carpentry -- 6. Method of fishing for whales and sea otter and method of hunting; occupations of the women, and some arts they know -- 7. Concerning the language and its affinity with that of Mexico; the eloquent discourse of Prince Maquinna; of the rhetoric and poetry of the Nootkans, and of their dances -- 8. Concerning their chronology and method of counting the days, months, and years; origin of the population of the island and the small trade of the natives; the arrival of a Spanish ship in 1774. and the Captain Cook's in 1778; commerce in sea otter skins established by the English Captains Gore, King, Hanna, and Meares; later voyages with the same purpose from Ostend and Boston, etc. -- 9. Voyage of the Spanish Commandant Don Esteban Martinez, by whom the port of Nootka was taken; imprisonment of a Portuguese captain later given his freedom; disagreement between Martinez and the English Captain Colnett; and the violent death of Prince Quelequem -- 10. Arrival of Eliza and Alberni in 1790; their industry and reconciliation of Maquinna with the Spanish -- 11. Representation of Meares to the Government of England against the Spanish; agreement of both nations; voyage to Nootka of Don [Juan] Francisco de la Bodega [y Quadra] in order to carry it out; commission given by the viceroy of Mexico to the author for the investigation of natural resources; sociability of the Nootkans; utility of the missions and of the promotion of agriculture -- 12. Arrival of the English Commandant Vancouver; verification of the falsity of Meares's complaints; suspension of the agreement between the Spanish and the English commandants, who sent back their decision to their governments; reflections upon the usefulness of maintaining or abandoning the establishment, and method by which the Spanish could extend the fur trade -- App. A. Brief Dictionary of the Terms That Could Be Learned of the Language of the Natives and Nootka -- App. B. Catalogue of the animals and plants which the authorities of my expedition, Don Jose Mozino and Don Jose Maldonado, have examined and classified according to the system of Linnaeus. |
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