This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ... daily to the mountain with a chief's rattle in his hand, to pray Quahootze to bring fish into their waters, and to sing and make music to him with the rattle. He never went out, except on such an errand as this, and to sing and perform religious rites and ceremonies over the sick. The government of the Nootka ...
Read More
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ... daily to the mountain with a chief's rattle in his hand, to pray Quahootze to bring fish into their waters, and to sing and make music to him with the rattle. He never went out, except on such an errand as this, and to sing and perform religious rites and ceremonies over the sick. The government of the Nootka Indians was vested in a hereditary king, and descended to his eldest male heir. But in case of his dying without a son, it went to his brother. The king had no legal right over the property of his subjects, nor did it appear that he expected them to contribute to his support any more than to that of each other. But he was the head of their councils, and their leader in war, in the management of which, his power was absolute. The right of holding slaves was shared between him and the chiefs, but the subject did not possess-this privilege. The slaves were people taken in war, from other tribes, and considered the king's property, which he divided, according to his own judgment, among the chiefs, and with due regard to their rank and merits. At the age of seventeen, the eldest son of a chief was considered a chief himself; and whenever a father, who was a chief, made a present, it was always done in the name of his eldest son. The chiefs frequently purchased their wives when they were not more than eight or nine years old, to prevent their being engaged to others; but they remained with their parents till sixteen, or thereabouts. Among themselves, the Nootkans seemed pacific and inoffensive, and manifested naturally good tempers. Quarrels seldom occurred between any of them. But if they happened to get a little offended, they had a way of seeming terribly enraged, which ap-peared to be rather a matter of fashion than of feeling. This they did...
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Good. Later edition, 1854. Square 12mo. 259 pp. including wood engravings. Original green publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt and patterned in blind. Cloth moderately worn and lightly stained, contemporary children's pencil graffiti in endpapers, mild foxing throughout. A good copy. Issued as the second part of 'Peter Parley's Little Library. ' An children's adaptation of an important Indian captivity narrative, chronicling English armorer John R. Jewitt's capture and enslavement by the native Canadian Nootka people of the Pacific Northwest from 1803 to his rescue in 1805.
![The Captive of Nootka. Or, the Adventures of John R. Jewett [sic]. - Jewitt, John Rodgers](https://www3.alibris-static.com/the-captive-of-nootka-or-the-adventures-of-john-r-jewett-sic/isbn/9781151370723_l.jpg)
![The Captive of Nootka Or the Adventures of John R. Jewett [Sic]](https://www3.alibris-static.com/isbn/9781151370723_t.gif)
