E-text prepared by Moti Ben-Ari and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 38010-h.htm or 38010-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38010/38010-h/38010-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38010/38010-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://www.archive.org/details/adventuresofjohn00jewiuoft [Illustration: Portrait of Dr. Robert Brown] THE ADVENTURES OF JOHN JEWITT Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship _Boston_ During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Robert Brown, Ph.D., M.A., F.L.S. Commander of the First Vancouver Exploring Expedition With Thirteen Illustrations Clement Wilson 29 Paternoster Row, London, E.C. 1896 [_All Rights Reserved_] Morrison and Gibb, Printers, Edinburgh IN MEMORY A sad interest attaches to this little book. Although published after his death, and therefore deprived of his final revision, it was not the last work which Dr. Robert Brown did. His manuscript was actually completed many months ago, but at his own request it was returned to him to receive a last careful overhaul at his hands. This revision had been practically finished, and the MS. lay ready uppermost among the papers in his desk, where it was found after his death. Dr. Brown died on the morning of the 26th of October, 1895, working almost to his last hour. Before the leader he had written for the _Standard_ on the evening of the 25th had come under the eyes of its readers, the hand that had penned it was cold in death. Between the evening and the morning he went home. He was only fifty-three, but "a righteous man, though he die before his time, shall be at rest." And in one sense Dr. Brown needed rest--ay, even this last and sweetest rest of all. His life had been one of unremitting work--work well done, which the busy, hurrying world mostly heeded not, knowing naught of the hand that did it. Some twenty years ago, when I first knew him, he was a fair, stalwart Northerner, full of vigour, mirthful also, and apparently looking out on the voyage of life with the confident, joyous eye of one who felt he had strength within him to conquer. His latter days were saddened by incessant toil, performed in weakness of body and jadedness of brain, and by the feeling that his best work, the work into which he put his rich stores of knowledge, was neither recognised nor requited as it should have been.