Presidential Address: The Early Literature of the Northwest Coast (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Captain Cook, strangely enough, obtained no hint whatever from the Indians of either of these voyages. He says: Some account of a Spanish voyage to this coast in 1774 or 1775 had reached England before I sailed; but the foregoing circumstances sufficiently prove that these ships had not been at Nootka (cook's Third Voyage, London, 1785, vol. 2, p. This probably refers, as the editor of La Perouse believes, to the synopsis of the voyage of 17 7 5, which was later included in Barrington's Miscellanies.

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