Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854
Author: Matthew Calbraith Perry
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Published: 1856
Total Pages: 750
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Author: Matthew Calbraith Perry
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Published: 1856
Total Pages: 750
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen Harriman Long
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Published: 1824
Total Pages: 466
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKChapter 5 was written by Major Long, and points out significant hydrographical and topographical features of the country the expedition traversed. Long also evaluates Native Americans' complex relations with the United States and its settlers. The book includes several appendices on natural history. Thomas Say classifies zoological materials and observations, and Lewis de Schweinitz contributes a catalogue of the plant specimens Say collected along the way. James Colhoun presents astronomical data, and Joseph Lovell, the U.S. Surgeon-General, compares climate readings at several American military outposts. The volume concludes with a comparative list of Native American vocabularies.
Author: David Livingstone
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 682
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Publisher: New-York : Harper & Bros.
Published: 1834
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an account by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) of his discovery of the Mississippi River's source, Lake Itasca, in 1832. Schoolcraft was an Indian agent for the region, and he assembled an expeditionary party of thirty, including Ozawindib (an Ojibway guide and interpreter), an army officer, a surgeon, a geologist, and interpreter, and a missionary. They set out with instructions from Secretary of War Lewis Cass to effect a permanent peace among the region's Native Americans, persuade them to be vaccinated against smallpox, acquire demographic and scientific information, and establish definitively the origin of the Mississippi. Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi contains anecdotes and observations about the beliefs, customs, and history of the Chippewa [Ojibway] as well as the Sioux [Dakota], the Fox [Mesquakie], the Sauk, the Menominee, the Mandans, and various other Native American groups. The narrative proceeds chronologically along the route the expedition followed, with detailed descriptions of geographical features. This volume also includes a short account of a trip along the St. Croix and Burntwood (Brule) River, and has an appendix containing statistical and linguistic data, a list of shells collected by Schoolcraft in the West and Northwestern territories, official reports, a speech by six Chippewa chiefs about the war delivered at Michilimackinac in July 1833, and a discussion of the Upper Mississippi's lead mining country.
Author: Watkin Tench
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-09-04
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay" by Watkin Tench. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: James Hingston Tuckey
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Published: 1818
Total Pages: 630
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Austen Henry Layard
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Published: 1867
Total Pages: 426
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Wilkes
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Published: 1849
Total Pages: 574
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Kirk Townsend
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Published: 1839
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J K Tuckey
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 638
ISBN-13: 9780714610764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detail of African life, custom and natural phenomena together with an account of the expedition's progress.