- Creator:
- Sánchez, Francisco Miguel, Fray
- Published / Created:
- 1789-1790
- Call Number:
- WA MSS 415
- Image Count:
- 92
- Abstract:
- The manuscript describes an 1789 Spanish expedition to the Northwest coast to determine the extent of Russian settlement and trade, as well as the activities of other nations in the region. Meetings with captains James Colnett, Robet Gray, William Douglas, and John Kendrick, and the seizure of the British ships Argonaut and Princess Royal, and the Portuguese ship Iphigenia, are recorded. The work also includes a vocabulary of the Nootka language and a description of the Nookta region and Indians.
- Description:
- Blanks not digitized., Contemporary copy., Fray Francisco Miguel Sánchez, a Franciscan from the College of San Fernado at San Blas, accompanied an 1789 expedition to Nootka Sound to establish a mission., Moused, with some loss of text., and The manuscript formerly belonged to Jose M. Linga. Given to the library by William Robertson Coe.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Nootka Sound (B.C.)--Description and travel and Northwest Coast of North America--Description and travel
- Subject (Name):
- Douglas, William,--fl. 1789, Espi, José,--Fray, Flóres, Manuel Antonio de, Gray, Robert,--1755-1806, Kendrick, John,--ca. 1740-1794, Lopez de Haro, Gonzalo, Martínez, Esteban José,--1742-1798, Patero, Severo,--Fray, Sánchez, Francisco Miguel,--Fray, and Sosies, Lorenzo,--Fray
- Subject (Topic):
- Nootka Indians and Nootka language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Historio Compuesta : de todo lo acaesido en la expediccion hecha al Puerto de Nuca año de 1789 / by Fray Francisco Sánchez, copied in another hand, 1790.
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