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A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the northern ocean: Undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the discovery of copper mines, a north west passage, &c. in the years 1769, 1770, 1771, & 1772

Hearne, Samuel: 1745-1792. Born in England; entered Royal Navy, then HBC, c. 1765; fur trader and explorer; built Cumberland House, the first permanent settlement in the future province of Saskatchewan, 1774; returned to England, 1787 (Wallace, Dictionary of Canadian biography ). // Manuscript journal was found by La Pérouse when he captured Fort Albany; later one of his conditions of surrender was that it be published. Also published, Amsterdam: Nico Israel and New York: Da Capo, 1968 (xliv, 458p.); 1st Dublin edition, Dublin: Printed for P. Byrne and J. Rice, 1796 ([1], 1 leaf, 459, [1]p.); abridged by William Fordyce Mavor, Philadelphia: Joseph & James Crukshank, 1802 (118p.); edited by Richard Phillips and included in, A collection of voyages and travels, from the discovery of America to the commencement of the nineteeth [sic] century , London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1809, vol.24 (392p.). Edited by Joseph Burr Tyrrell, edition of 520 copies, Toronto: Champlain Society, 1911 (xv, 437, viiip.); reprinted New York: Greenwood Press, 1968 (xv, 437, viiip.). Edited by Richard Gilchrist Glover, Toronto: Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1958 and 1972 (lxxii, 301p.). With introduction by

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