LONG (John).
Voyages and Travels of an Indian Interpreter and Trader, Describing the Manners and Customs of the North American Indians ... To which is Added a Vocabulary of the Chippeway Language.
Long began working for the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1768. As a fur trader he travelled extensively among the First Nations people of Canada for nineteen years. “His knowledge of the character, customs, and domestic life of the Indians was therefore the most thorough and intimate. His relations are characterized by candor and intelligence…” (Field). “An excellent account of the customs and manners of the Indians among whom the author lived…” (Graff). “The most valuable record of First Nations life and the fur trade of the period, by a fur trader who lived 19 years in the old Northwest. The vocabularies occupy pp.183-295 and are of great value. The map, showing the territory from the Great Lakes north to James’s Bay and from the Mississippi east to the St. Lawrence, is entitled ‘Sketch of the Western Countries of Canada 1791’” (Vail).
Eberstadt, 113:288a; Field, 946; Graff, 2527; Howes, L443; Hubach, p.27. Rader, 2249; Sabin, 41878; Streeter Sale, 3651; Vail, 878.
