Author: MCDONALD, ALEXANDER
Title: A Narrative of Some Passages in the History of Eenoolooapik: A Young Esquimaux, Who Was Brought to Britain in 1839, in the Ship "Neptune" of Aberdeen : An Account of the Discovery of Hogarth's Sound: Remarks on the Northern Whale Fishery and Suggestions for the improvement, &c., &c.
Description: Edinburgh, Fraser & Co. 1841, First Edition. Brown Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, iii, 149 pp. Frontispiece portrait, two folding maps, the facsimile letter is missing, the map of Davis Strait, Cumberland Isle is a facsimile (not recent), the map of Hogarth's Sound is original. Original cloth lettered in gilt on cover, decorated in blind. First edition of this curious work. Eenoolooapik, an Inuk traveler and guide was born at Qimisuk, Cumberland Sound, c.1820; he died at Cumberland Sound 1847. He traveled to Britain in 1839 with whaling captain William Penny, who had hoped to establish a wintering base for whalers in Cumberland Sound. Penny's plan was rejected, but Eenoolooapik's friendliness and sense of humour endeared him to the British, who followed newspaper reports of his activities. In 1840, after helping Penny enter Cumberland Sound, he returned to his birthplace, where he married and lived as a hunter and trader. Not long after his death, wintering in Cumberland Sound became common practice among whalers, and thus the knowledge Eenoolooapik provided to his European friends served to accelerate the colonization of his homeland (Canadian Encyclopaedia). Very scarce. Good.

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