Manuscript captions on versos. Johnny Kit Elswa was assistant and interpreter during the cruise to Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C. in the summer of 1883. Photographer: Spencer & Hastings, Portrait and Landscape Photographers
Includes notes taken during trading voyages in the Schooner Sarah Newton, Censuses of the Makah Tribe, notes on fishes, whales, manufactures of Native Americans, and vocabularies of the Chinook jargon and Makah language. With nine pages of sketches at the back. Accompanied by typed transcript