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An account of the countries adjoining to Hudson’s Bay, in the north-west part of America... To which are added... Vocabularies of the languages of several Indian nations adjoining to Hudson’s bay.
London: printed for J. Robinson, 1744
Physical Description: [2], ii, 211, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 30 cm. (4to)
Call number: D744/ D632a/ 1-SIZE
Accession number: 09896
Notes: Contains two vocabulary lists of English terms with native equivalents: “A Vocabulary of English and Eskima words”, including approximately 150 terms (p. 203-205); and “A short vocabulary of the language spoke among the Northern Indians inhabiting the north-west part of Hudson’s Bay, as it was taken at different times from the mouths of Nabiana and Zazana, two Indians, who were on board His Majesty’s ship the Furnace, in the year 1742, by Edward Thompson, surgeon of the said ship”, including about 300 terms, plus numerals 1-11, 20, 30, and human body parts, in English with native equivalents (p. 206-211).
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Languages: Yupik languages
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: North America
