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Voyages chez différentes nations sauvages de l'Amérique septentrionale; renfermant des détails curieux sur les moeurs, usages, cérémonies religieuses, le système militaire, &c. des Cahnuagas, des indiens des Cinq et Six Nations, Mohawks, Connecedagas, Iroquois, &c. des indiens Chippeways, & autres sauvages de divers tribus; sur leurs langues, les pays qu’ils habitent, ainsi que sur le commerce de pelleteries & fourrures qui se fait chez ces peuples.
Paris: Prault and Fuchs, [1794]
Physical Description: [4] , xxxvi, 320 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Call number: D794/ L848v
Accession number: 03838, 30826
Notes:
This translation contains the speeches and songs in the Ojibwa language, but not the glossary of nouns, verbs and phrases in various Indian languages found in the London, 1791 edition.
Translation, by Jean Baptiste Louis Joseph Billecocq, of: Voyages and travels of an Indian interpreter and trader, first printed London, 1791.
"Carte des pays situes à l'ouest du Canada 1791", folded map bound to face p. 1, 3rd count, is a map by the author of the regions of the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence, and James' Bay with the location of the resident Indian tribes.
JCB has 2 copies.
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Languages: Ojibwa
Genre: Specimen
Region: North America
