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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 IslandJewitt, John Rodgers

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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

Name: 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
Author: Jewitt, John Rodgers

Jewitt, John Rodgers

Indian captivities; Nootka Indians; Nootka Sound (B.C.)

CHAPTER X
  CONVERSATION WITH MAQUINA--FRUITS--RELIGIOUS
  CEREMONIES--VISIT TO UPQUESTA                            156

  CHAPTER XI
  RETURN TO NOOTKA (FRIENDLY COVE)--DEATH OF MAQUINA'S
  NEPHEW--INSANITY OF TOOTOOSCH--AN INDIAN MOUNTEBANK      172

  CHAPTER XII
  WAR WITH THE A-Y-CHARTS--A NIGHT ATTACK--PROPOSALS TO
  PURCHASE THE AUTHOR                                      185

  CHAPTER XIII
  MARRIAGE OF THE AUTHOR--HIS ILLNESS--DISMISSES HIS
  WIFE--RELIGION OF THE NATIVES--CLIMATE                   198

  CHAPTER XIV
  ARRIVAL OF THE BRIG "LYDIA"--STRATAGEM OF THE
  AUTHOR--ITS SUCCESS                                      223

  APPENDIX
  I. THE "BOSTON'S" CREW                                   247
  II. WAR-SONG OF THE NOOTKA TRIBE                         248
  III. A LIST OF WORDS                                     249

  INDEX                                                    253




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                                                          PAGE
  PORTRAIT OF DR. ROBERT BROWN (1870)           _Frontispiece_
  DR. BROWN'S "BOY"                                         14
  PORT SAN JUAN INDIANS                                     16
  OHYAHT INDIAN                                             24
  INDIAN ENCAMPMENT NEAR THE LANDING-STAGE, ESQUIMAULT      33
  HABITATIONS IN NOOTKA SOUND (TEMP. 1803)                  97
  INTERIOR OF A HABITATION IN NOOTKA SOUND                 103
  NOOTKA SOUND INDIANS                                     111
  INDIAN CANOES, VICTORIA, V. I. (TEMP. 1863)              125
  UK-LULAC-AHT INDIAN                                      135
  SALMON WEAR NEAR THE INDIAN VILLAGE OF QUAMICHAN, V. I.  149
  CALLICUM AND MAQUILLA, CHIEFS OF NOOTKA SOUND
      (TEMP. 1803)                                         159
  INDIAN CHIEF'S GRAVE (TEMP. 1863)                        209




ADVENTURES OF JOHN JEWITT.




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