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Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering’s Strait, to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty’s Ship Blossom, under the commande of Captain F. W. Beechey, R.N. F.R.A.S, and F.R.G.S. in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28,...
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831
Physical Description: 2 pts. in 1 v. : ill., maps, ports., charts ; 28 cm. (4to) p. 1: xxi, [3], 392 p., [18] leaves of plates (1 folded); pt. 2: vii, [2], 394-742 p., [7] leaves of plates
Call number: D831/ B414m/ 1-SIZE
Accession number: 04921
Notes: Part. 1, chapter 11, recording observations on geography, flora, fauna, and native customs made during Beechey’s voyage northward from Chamisso Island in Kotzebue Sound to Capes Krusenstern, Mulgrave, Thomson,
Sabine, Beaufort, Icy Cape, Cape Franklin, and back to Chamisso, includes a brief glossary listing approximately 40 names of animals in English with Eskimo (“Esquimaux”) names, printed in 4 columns. Also contains a fragment of an Eskimo song (p. 288), a few Eskimo terms passim (p. 291-292), and brief remarks on dialectal variations (p. 293). Pt. 2 contains a more extensive glossary as an appendix, “Vocabulary of words of the western Esquimaux” (p. 619-627), “a collection of words made by Mr. Collie, Mr. Osmer, and myself from straggling parties of Esquimaux, whom we met principally in Kotzebue Sound. It agrees in many respects with that given by Captain Parry in his second voyage... and leaves no doubt of the two languages being radically the same; though, as might be expected, the idioms are somewhat different. Captain Parry’s remarks upon the language of the Eastern Esquimaux seem to apply equally to that of the Western nation” (p. 619). Approximately 400 English terms, including numbers 1-10, are listed with native equivalents, in many cases 2 or 3 variations, each with the collector’s initials indicated. The list is preceded by notes on phonetics.
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Languages: Yupik
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: Arctic
