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Three years' travels, through the interior parts of North America... Together with a concise history of the genius, manners, and customs of the Indians inhabiting the lands that lie adjacent to the heads and to the westward of the great river Mississippi.
Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank and Robert Bell, 1784
Physical Description: xxi, [2], 24-217, [1] p. ; 23 cm. (8vo)
Call number: D784/ C331t
Accession number: 34651
Notes: "A short vocabulary of the Chipéway [Ojibwa] language": p. 172-176.
"A short vocabulary of the Naudowessie [Dakota] language": p. 176-178.
First published in London, 1778 under title: Travels through the interior parts of North America in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768.
Also attributed tentatively to John Coakley Lettsom, known to be involved with the work at least in the category of editor. Cf. Bourne, E.G. "The travels of Jonathan Carver", Amer. hist. review, v. 11, no. 2 (Jan. 1906), p. 287-302.
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Languages: Dakota / Ojibwa
Genre: Specimen / Vocabulary
Region: North America
