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A voyage of discovery, made under the orders of the Admiralty, in HIs Majesty’s ships Isabella and Alexander, for the purpose of exploring Baffin’s Bay, and inquiring ino the probability of a North-West Passage.
London: John Murray, 1819
Physical Description: [4], xxxix, [1], 252, [2], cxliv p., [31] leaves of plates (10 folded, 1 double), 3 folded leaves : ill., maps, ports. ; 28 cm. (4to)
Call number: D819/ R824v/ 1-SIZE
Accession number: 02298; 03-74
Notes: Contains 2 brief vocabularies of the “Language of the Arctic Highlanders” (p. 122-123) living in a geographically isolated mountainous region in the north-east corner of Baffin’s Bay, extending south from Cape Robertson. “A comparative list of the northern and southern Eskimaux language” lists 13 nouns in English with equivalents in northern and southern Eskimo languages, in 3 columns; “Words the same in both dialects” lists 2 dozen terms, primarily nouns, in 2 columns; includes numbers 1-5.
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Languages: Inuit MARC: for Inuit use Inuktitut or Inupiaq or Kalâtdlisut
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: Arctic
