Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson's Bay in His Majesty's Ship Rosamond

Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson's Bay in His Majesty's Ship Rosamond - Containing Some Account of the North-eastern Coast of America and of the Tribes Inhabiting That Remote Region

MAP of the GREAT NELSON RIVER, from the Great Lake Winnepeg to the Gull Lake. Shewing the different Portages, Falls, and Rapids; BY MR. WILLIAM HILLIER Master in the Royal Navy N.B. The figures denote the number of feet in each fall of the River. High-Resolution Map Towards the close of the year 1814, a young naval officer, Lieutenant Chappell, of his Majestys ship Rosamond, who had recently returned, for the second time, from an expedition to the North-eastern coast of America, brought to Cambridge a collection of the dresses, weapons, &c. of the Indians inhabiting Hudsons Bay[1]; requesting that I would present these curiosities to the Public Library of the University. This Collection so much resembled another which the Russian Commodore Billings brought to Petersburg from the North-western shores of the same continent, and part of which iv Professor Pallas had given to me in the Crimea, that, being desirous to learn whether the same customs and language might not be observed over the whole of North America, between the parallels 50 and 70 of north latitude, I proposed to Lieutenant Chappell a series of questions concerning the natives of the North-eastern coast; desiring to have an answer to each of them, in writing, founded upon his own personal observations. In consequence of this application, I was entrusted with a perusal of the following Journal. It was written by himself, during his last expedition: and having since prevailed upon him to make it public, it is a duty incumbent upon me to vouch for its authenticity, and to make known some particulars respecting its author, which may perhaps give an additional interest to his Narrative. The Letters, indeed, which have accompanied his communications with regard to his late voyage, v are strongly tinged with the infandum jubes renovare dolorem; because, to the ardent spirit of a British seaman, no service can be more depressing than that which, during war, banishes him from the career of glory, to a station where no proof of skill or of intrepidity, no enterprise of fatigue or of danger, is ever attended with honour or reward[2]. Lieutenant Chappell was twice ordered upon this station; after exploits in the navy, which, at a very early period of his life, obtained for him the rank he now holds. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 54088
Author: Chappell, Edward
Release Date: Feb 2, 2017
Format: eBook
Language: English