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
Manuscript, possibly autograph, of Moziño's account of the Nootka expedition, later published as Noticias de Nutka. In twelve chapters, the work describes the discovery and locations of the Nootka and details their social life and customs, government, religious beliefs, natural resources, and trade. Moziño also discusses the relations between the English and Spanish on the Northwest coast, including their conflict over the Spanish seizure of the Argonaut, the Princess Royal, and the Portuguese ship Iphegenia. There are also references to the explorations of the Americans John Kendrick and the trader Robert Gray.
Alternative Title:
Noticias de Nutka.
Description:
Don José Mariano Moziño Suárez de Figueroa, botanist appointed as naturalist to the 1792 Expedición de Limites al Norte de California by Viceroy Revilla-Gigedo. He later collaborated with Martin de Sessé on his Plantae Novae Hispaniae and Flora Mexicana.
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest Coast of North America--Discovery and exploration--American
