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Travels of an Indian Interpreter 1791

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Title: 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 St. 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, Shawanee, and Esquimeaux Tongues, and a Table, Shewing the Analogy between the Algonkin and Chippeway Languages.
Author: Long, J[ohn].
Description: [2], x, [errata leaf], 295 pp. Folding copper-engraved map. (4to) 10¼x9, later red half morocco and cloth, spine gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition.The author joined the service of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1768, and journeyed as a fur trader among the Indians of Canada for nineteen years. Field notes that "His knowledge of the character, customs, and domestic life of the Indians was...the most thorough and intimate. His relations are characterized by candor and intelligence, tinged a little with the disappointments which most of the servants of the Company who have written accounts of their experiences, seemed to have suffered." The final 112 pages of the book are Indian vocabularies, a feature which Field refers to as "the most valuable portion of the...work." Streeter adds that it is "an interesting record...of the fur trade at the time of the greatest competition between the Montreal traders and the Hudson's Bay Company." Field 946; Graff 2527; Howes L443; Pilling 2311; Rader 2249; Sabin 41878; Smith 6073; Streeter 3651.
Heading: Place Published: London
Publisher: Printed for the Author
Date Published: 1791