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Rhapsodies, in a voyage to Nootka Sound [Unknown]

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"The dedication to Maquinna, alias Tahism (the Meridian sun), the King of Nootka Sound, begins "I had the honor some time ago of transmitting . . . the opening of a poem entitled The Otter skin". Parts 2 and 3 of The otter skin and other satirical poems after the model of Alexander Pope. "The characters sketched in these pages, Your Majesty knows too well by fatal experience": - Dedication. The author regrets the greed and depredations of the traders."-- Strathern, G. M., & Edwards, M. H. (1970). Navigations, traffiques & discoveries, 1774-1848: A guide to publications relating to the area now British Columbia. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, pp. 244-245.

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