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•40Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 3I I"41 MacLaren : <strong>Notes</strong> on Samuel Hearne's IoiuneyRichard Glover (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 19581·3 Stowe MSSvoL 307, ff. 66-89 ·4 MGzr, Stowe MS307 fP-67-89 1791, 61 pp. .' .5 Dropmore Papers, Grenville MS.ADD. 592.37,47 ff. The Grenvtlle 'manuscnpt ~mentioned in R.A.H. Smith, 'The Dropmore Papers (Add. MSS.5 8855-594941,The British Library loumal, vol. 7, no. I (19811: 75-87· It is unknown if thiscopy precedes or succeeds that in the Stowe MSS,the evidence of the water-markis inconclusive.6 Andrew Graham Andrew Graham's Observations on Hudson's Bay 1767-179 r,ed. by Giyndwr Williams, inttod. by R. Glove~, Publications of. theHudson's Bay Recold Society, vol. 2.7 (London: Hudson s Bay Record Society,1969', 196-2.00. .7 See l.S. MacLaren, 'Exploring Canadian Literature : ~amuel Hearne and the InUltGirl' in Probing Canadian Culture, ed. Peter Easmgwood, Konrad Gross, andwoUgang KlooB,Beittag zur Kanadist ik: Band I, Schriftenreihe der GesellschaftfUrKanada-Studien IAugsburg: AvVerlag, 199 1), 87- 106 .8 'Massacre of Esquimaux by the Indians,' The Mirror of Literature, Amusementand Instruction, 2.(6 Dec. 182.31:4 66-68 .9 IA. c~lesonl, Miss Coleson's Narrative of her Captivity' amo~ the Si~~Indiansl The Garland Library of Narratives of North Amencan Indian Captivities,vol. 79 (New York: Garland, 1977), 2.4-6, lacs. rpt. of the first edition(Philadelphia: Barclay &.Co., 1864). For this last reference, I am grateful to mycolleague, Robin McGrath . '10 Glover, ed., A Tourneyfrom Prince of Wales's Fort, roon.I [ Peter C. Newman, The Company of Adventurers, vol. I lMarkham, Ont :Penguin, 19 86 [orig. publ. 1985/1,352.-541M.J. Brand, 'Samuel Hearne and theMassacre at Bloody Falls [sic),'PolarRecord, 2.8,no . 166 (July 1992.):2.2.~32.1 L.S.MacLaren, "Samuel Hearne and the Landscapes of Discovery," Canadian ~lterature,no. 103lWinter 19841:2.7-40; and Terry Goldie, Fearand Temptauon :The Image of the Indigene in Canadian, Australian, :rod r:tew.zealandLiteratures [Kingston, Monttul, London: McGill-Queen s Umverslty Press,[9 891,43-7 . . . .u 'Mr. Hearne 's Narrative,' Stowe MS,f76v; NACttanscnptlon, 2.7,2.6;rpt. 10 I.S.MacLaren, 'Samuel Hearne's Accounts of the Massacre at Bloody Fall, 17 July177[,' Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, vol. 2.2., no. I (Jan.[99[) : 30; 'Hearne's Journalln0-72.,' Grenville MS,hl~ . . .13 'Mr. Hearne's Narrative,' Stowe MS, fnr, HACttanscnptlon, 2. 8, rpt . 10 M.ac.Laren, 'Samuel Hearne's Accounts': 31; 'Hearne's JoumaI 1770-72.,' GrenvilleMs,h2.v . . . . Ma'Mr Hearne's Narrative' Stowe MS, h6vI NACttanscnptlon, 2.7;rpt , 10 c-14 . ' , G illLaren, 'Samuel Hearne's Accounts': 30; 'Hearne's [ournal 1770-72., renv eMs,bIV. . d fll .The Grenville MSdiffers slightly only in the punctuation. It rea s as 0 oWS.'... the Indians crept under some of the rocks within 100 yards o~ th.etent wherethey lay some time to watch the motions of the Esquimaux; but f10dmg all asleepas they supposed by seeing nobody stir wi thout they ran on the tent on a sudden,&.killed every soul before they had power to rise, in the whole ar persons.'15 Andrew Graham's Observations, 195-99.16 'Mr. Hearne's Narrative ,' Stowe MS,h7r; HACtranscription, 2.7; rpt. in Maclaren,'Samuel Hearne's Accounts': 31; 'Hearne's Journal Ino-p,' Grenville MS,fur.17 Glover, ed., A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort, xxxvii-xliii.18 Leslie H. Neatby, 'Inttoduction to the New Edition,' in Hearne, A Journey fromPrince of Wales's Fortin Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean. Undertakenby Order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the Discovery of Copper Mines,a North West Passage, eVc. In the Years 1769,1770, r771, eV17721facs. rpt.of the first edition (Edmonton : M.G. Hurtig, 197r] xxiii-xxv.19 Samuel Hearne, A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort (17951,iii-iv .2.0 MacLaren, 'Samuel Hearne's Accounts': 36-9.2.[ See the salutary and timely flaying administered Columbian editors by DavidHenige, In Search of Columbus : The Sources of the First Voyage [Tucson,Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, 1991,.u Brand, 'Samuel Hearne and the Massacre at Bloody Falls [sic]': 2.3I.2.3 Richard Glover, 'A Note on John Richardson's "Digression Concerning Hearne'sRoute",' Canadian Historical Review, 32.(195I): 2.52.-63;Glover, ed., A loutneyfrom Prince of Wales's Fort , xxx-xxxi.2.4 James Cook (John Douglas, ed.],A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertakenby the Command of His Ma;esty, for making Discoveries in the NorthernHemisphere . . . ,3 vols. and Atlas [London: For G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 17841.2.5 Ibid., I: xlvii-xlix .2.6 This discrepancy is discussed in Maclaren, 'Exploration/Travel Literature andthe Evolution of the Author, ' International loumal of Canadian Studies/Revueiatemationale d'etudes caaadieanes, no. 5 (Spring/Prlntemps, 1992.1:39-68 .2.7 Hearne, A Tourney from Prince of Wales's Fort (17951, ISS; Glover , ed., AJourney from Prince of Wales's Fort, 100.2.8 Hearne, A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort (17951,164, 166; Glover, ed.,ATourneyfrom Prince of Wales's Fort , 106, 108.2.9 The source of this report is Captain John Franklin's midshipman George Back,who ttavelled in 182.1 during Franklin's first overland expedition with a manAnnoethai -yazzeh - who had also accompanied Hearne. See C. Stuart Houston,ed., To the Arctic by Canoe r8r9-182i : the Journal and Paintings of RobertHood, Midshipman with Franklin IMontrul and London: McGill·Qucen'sUniversity Press, 19741,133n; and Maclaren, 'Samuel Hearne's Accounts': 46-7·Houston's edition of Back's journal from this expedition, including the midshipman'sdoubt concerning Hearne's presence at the massacre, is forthcoming fromMcGill·Queen's University Press as Arctic Artist: The Journal and Paintingsof George Back, Midshipman with Franklin 1819-1822.30 Glyndwr Williams, 'Highlights of the First 2.00 Years of the Hudson's BayCompany,' The Beaver, 301 (Autumn 1970): 2.5;and Glyndwr Williams, 'ThePuzzle of Anthony Henday's Journal, 1754-55,' The Beaver, 309 (Autumn1978): 41.
• 42 Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 3 I /243 MacLaren : <strong>Notes</strong> on Samuel Hearne's Tourney3I Sean Peake, 'Hot on a cold trail- rewriting Samuel Hearne 's track : part one,' ,1991, unpubl. typescript.32 Samuel Hearne, A Tourneyfrom Prince of Wales's Fort (1795), and facs. rpt, ofthe first edition, Biblioteca Australiana II "5, [Amsterdam: N .lsrael , New York:Da Capo, 1968), 2.02. .33 Ibid., [xx],34 'Mr. Hearne's Narrat ive,' Stowe MS,f80r, NACtranscription, 37.35 'Hearne's Journal 1770-72.,' Grenville MS,f30r.36 The other four errata have to do with typos and the faulty inclusion of twopronouns - 'he ' and 'we' - where only the first is required . One of the typosis, however, not uninteresting, since it has to do with altering the spelling ofHearne's name for Great Slave Lake: 'III - I2., for Athapusco read Athapuscow.'It is worth noting in this connection as well that neither of thesespellings corresponds to the rendering given on Hearne's original map: 'ArathapescowLake' (Fig. 6).37 Samuel Hearne, A Tourneyfrom Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson 's Bay, tothe Northern Ocean. Undertaken by Order of the Hudson's Bay Company.Forthe Discovery of Copper Mines. a North West Passage, eJc. in the Years1769, 1770, 1771, eJ 1772 (I795) (Ottawa: Canadian Institute for HistoricalMicroreproductions, 1982.),6 microfiches, no. 35434.38 In the case of only a dozen copies was a check made to see if any of the othererrata were corrected in pencil , occasionally, as in the copy held by the NationalLibrary of Canada and microfilmed by the CIHM, all the errata are corrected. Inthe NLC/CIHMcopy as well, a zealous reader has extended the list to a sixtherratum and also made the correction in the text: '12.5- 4, for!! read~' ([xx],to conform to the format of the printed errata, the words not underlined shouldhave been, and vice versa] .39 J.B.Tyrrell, ed., A Tourneyfrom Ptince of Wales's Fortin Hudson's Bay to theNorthern Ocean in the Years1769, 1770, 1771,and 1772. By Samuel Hearne,Publications of the Champlain Society, vol. VI(Toronto: The Champlain Society,I9U),2.3.40 Ibid., 2.I 8.41 Ibid., II2., 17.1,17.9,146.42 Hearne: a Tourney from Prince of Wales's FOIt in Hudson 's Bay to theNorthern Ocean. Originally published as Champlain Society Publicationvr (191II, facs rpt.(New York: Greenwood, 19681,2.18.43 Glover, ed., A Tourney[iom Prince of Wales's Fort, 131 .44 Ibid., 43, 50, 56, 7 I.45 Samuel Hearne, Tourneyfrom Prince of Wales's Fort,in Hudson's Bay, to theNorthern Ocean. Undertaken by Order of the Hudson's Bay Company. Forthe Discovery of CopperMines, a North West Passage, eJc.in the Years1769,1770, 1771, eJ 1772 (Dublin: For P. Byrne and J. Rice, 1796), 2.011and rpt,(Ottawa: Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1982), 6 microfiches,no. 40172.46 Glover, ed., A Tourneyfrom Prince of Wales's Fort, [lv],47 Ibid., [i],48 Ibid., [xlv].49 Landries van 't Prins van Wallis Fort aan Hudsons Baai, naar den NootderOceaan. Ondernomen op bevel van de Maatschappi; del Hudsons Baai, terOntdekkinge van Koper-Mi;nen, een NOOId-Westen Doortogt, enz. in deTaren 1769, 1770, 1771 en 1772. Door Samuel Hearne. Uit het Engelschvettaald met Annrnerkingen van Iohann Reinhold Forster, 2 vols. [TheHague: For J.C. Leeuwnstijn, 1798), II: 171rpt. (Ottawa: Canadian Institute forHistorical Microreproductions, 1982.1,3 microfiches (vol. II, no. 18140; 4 microfiches(vol. II),no . 18141.50 Samuel Heames Resa til Norra Americas isbai, samt en Obekant EngelsmansResor Bland Canadas Wildar, utgifne af Le Long: soamte EdvardUmfrevillee Beskrifning om Hudsons Baye ocb des Tilgroansande Wildar(Stockholm: For Iohan Pfeiffer, 1798), 12.41rpt .(Ottawa: Canadian Institute forHistorical Microreproductions , 1982.1, 5 microfiches, no. 17711.5I Voyage de Samuel Hearne, du Fort du Prince de Galles dans la Baie deHudson, a [sic]l'Ocean Nord, Entrepris par Ordre de la Compagnie de laBaie de Hudson, dans les Ann~es 1769, 1770, 1771, et 1772, et execut~ parTerre,pour la Decouverte d'tm Passageau Nord-Ouest . Ttaduit de l'Anglais,et Accompagne de Cartes et de Plancbes, 2.vols (Paris: Imprimerie de Patris,An VII (179911,1:131. (A microfiche reprint was not located in the CIHMfiles.]Despite the fact that The National Union Catalogue Pre-I956 Imprintscontains two separate entries for the French translation , one dated 1798 andapparently published by 'de Patres,' and the other dated 1799 and published by'de Patris,' there was only the one edition, that of 1799. Confirmation of this wasobtained from Richard J. Wolfe, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, theJoseph Garland Librarian of the Boston Medical Library. The Francis A. CountwayLibrary of Medicine, a division of the Boston Medical Library, is listed inthe HUe [vol. 2.37,p. :1741as the only repository of the edition of 1798, but anexamination of that copy indicates that the title-pages of the two volumes matchthose of the edition of 1799. Most likely, then, the discrepancy can be accountedfor by errors made in converting the post-Prench-Revolution date, as shown onthe title-pages, of' An VII,' and in listing the name of the publisher .52.Ioumeyftom FortPrince of Wales, in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean,for the Discovery of Copper Mines and a North-West Passage, Performedbetween the Years1769 and 1772 by Mr. Samuel Hearne (Philadelphia: Josephand James Crukshank, 1802.),73;rpt.(Ottawa: Canadian Institute for HistoricalMicroreproductions, 1982.1,2microfiches, no . 1832.7.53 Samuel Hearne's Reise von dem Prinz von Wallis-fort and det Hudsons-Baybis zu dem Bismeete , in den lahten 1769 bis 1772. Aus dem Englischeniibersetzt . Mit Anmerkungen von Iobann Reinhold Forster, Professor detNatutgeschichte und Mineralogie in Halle, mit Glied der R. Dr. Akademieder Wissenschaften ec., Magazin von Merkwardigen neuen Reisebeschreibungen,vol. 14 {Berlin: In der Vossichen Buchhandlung, 1797), 186; rpt ,(Ottawa : Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1982.),4 micro-
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