A Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John Jewitt; Only Survivor of the Ship Boston, During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound...

New York: for the Publisher, n.d. Jewitt was an armorer on board the merchant ship "Boston" which rounded the Horn and sailed up the west coast as far as Nootka Sound, where the ship was attacked by Indians. All of the crew were killed except Jewitt and another crewman. He was eventually rescued by the brig "Lydia" of Boston, and returned to that port after sailing to China. The details of the adventures of Jewitt were drawn from him by the indefatigable queries of Richard Alsop... The narrative affords us many new and interesting particulars of the life and habits of the most savage of American aborigines.Field 776. See also Howes A-189, Huntress 181 C. Hill 887. Jewitt wrote his own account, which was published in 1807. Bound in original pictorial board which have been rebacked in brown cloth with paper spine label. Front cover rubbed, minor water staining. A good copy.. 16.5 cm. (166 pp. b/w frontispiece, illustrations in text