Native American [Inuit] hunchback boy stands in a landscape. Includes dogsled.
Source creator:
O'Reilly, Bernard
Source Title:
Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-west Passage to the Pacific Ocean, illustrated in a voyage to Davis's Strait, during the summer of 1817. ...
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 47, Paternoster-Row.
Source date:
1818
notes:
Text notes that the boy was about fourteen years old.This voyage was made by the whaling ship Thomas with O'Reilly serving as ship's surgeon. O'Reilly claims to have discovered the Linnaean Island Chain and is confident of the discovery of a northwest passage. Although O'Reilly made many of the observations in the book, it is believed that large parts of the text were plagiarised from the lectures of Professor von Giesecke.Title page states that the plates are taken from drawings done by the author on the spot.
