1 item (204 leaves) ; 26 cm. in box 27 cm

Twentieth-century copy (or earlier) of William Sturgis's journal, recording details from the time when he served as an assistant to Captain James Rowan on the ship Eliza, which sailed from Boston, Mass. in the summer of 1798 on a fur-trading expedition to the northwest coast of North America and to China. The journal begins on 13 February 1799, while the Eliza was in the Pacific Ocean near Sitka Sound, and ends on 17 May 1799, en route to St. Francisco. Included with the journal are two appendixes, one a list of latitude and longitude readings for various points along the Pacific Northwest coast, and the other a glossary of English terms and their Caigenee and Sheetkah Indian language equivalents

Manuscript in ink, on lined paper

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Includes index

For more information see the published edition of this journal: Sturgis, William. The journal of William Sturgis / edited with an introduction and notes by S.W. Jackman. Victoria, B.C., Canada : Sono Nis Press, 1978

Original in: Massachusetts Historical Society

NMNH; transfer;