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Jewitt Forced to Marry and Adopt Native Dress

In A Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound

Read by Sue Anderson

John R. Jewitt

John Jewitt (1783-1821), a blacksmith by trade, spent the years 1803-1806 as a slave among the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound, off t…

01 - Ch. 1, Part 1, On to the Goldfields

In The Gold Hunters (Borthwick)

Read by Sue Anderson

J. D. Borthwick and John David Borthwick

This is a robust, rough and tumble, first-hand account of the early California gold rush years 1851-1854 by a Scottish adventurer and artist…

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