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A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean. Undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company, for the discovery of copper mines, a north west passage, &c. in the years 1769, 1770, 1771, & 1772.

Title
A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean. Undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company, for the discovery of copper mines, a north west passage, &c. in the years 1769, 1770, 1771, & 1772.
Author
Hearne, Samuel, 1745-1792
Publication
London, Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, and sold by T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1795.

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Description
xliv, 458 p. 5 fold. maps, 4 fold. plates.; 30 cm.
Subject
  • Indians of North America > Northwest, Canadian
  • Calumets
  • Northwest, Canadian > Description and travel
Note
  • Sabin 31181 /
  • Numerous references to tobacco, chiefly pertaining to its use among the Indians, e. g. p. xxxvi: "You are ... to smoke your calimut of peace with their leaders ... "; p. 99: "Tobacco was ... always given away [to the Indians Hearne met]"; p. 205: "[Indians undergoing ritual cleansing after murder] would not ... smoke out of any other pipe, but their own ..."
Call Number
Arents S 0870
OCLC
  • 2352041
  • NYPG754068887-B
Author
Hearne, Samuel, 1745-1792.
Title
A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean. Undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company, for the discovery of copper mines, a north west passage, &c. in the years 1769, 1770, 1771, & 1772.
Imprint
London, Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, and sold by T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1795.
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Arents S 0870
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