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Three years travels throughout 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.
Boston: Printed by John Russell, for David West, 1797
Physical Description: xvi, [1], 6-312 p. ; 18 cm. (12mo)
Call number: D797/ C331t
Accession number: 34655
Notes: "A short vocabulary of the Chipéway [Ojibwa] language": p. 241-249.
"A short vocabulary of the Naudowessie [Dakota] language": p. 249-253.
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.
The Houghton Library notes two settings of signatures E-K, P-Q, and S-W, distinguishable by the size of the signature marks.
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Languages: Dakota / Ojibwa
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: North America
