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LONG, J. Voyages and Travels of An Indian Interpreter And Trader, Describing The Manners and Customs Of The North American Indians; With An Account of the Posts Situated on the River Saint Laurence, Lake Ontario, & c. To Which Is Added, A Vocabulary Of The Chippeway Language. Names of Furs and Skins, In English and French. A List of Words In The Iroquois, Mohegan, Shawnee, and Esquimeaux Tongues and a Table Shewing the Analogy between the Algonkin and Chippeway Languages.
London: Printed for The Author; and Sold by Robson..., 1791. First edition. 4to., full contemporary calf, raised bands, gilt compartments, (xii), 295pp. With a folding map. Small chip at head of the spine, outer front hinge cracked but holding o/w a very good copy with wide margins.


"The most valuable record of Indian life and the fur trade of the period, by a fur trader, who lived 19 years in the Northwest. The vocabularies occupy pp.183-295 and are of great value. The map, showing the territory from the Great Lakes north to James Bay and from the Mississippi east to the St. Lawrence, is entitled "Sketch of the Western Countries of Canada, 1791."

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