#CAPTAIN COOK NOOTKA SOUND PLUS#
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The artist, John Webber (1751-93), accompanied Captain Cook on his third voyage of. It is drawn in ink, pencil and wash and watercolours. Captain Cook misunderstood and thought they were communicating the name of the area, which gave birth to the name Nootka Sound. This drawing records this bay and some of its inhabitants. After examining the shorelines and islands that Captain Cook missed in 1778, he was to calm matters with Spain, which had a long-standing claim to Nootka Sound and its general surroundings. Then, proceeding up the coast and carefully following his Admiralty instructions, Cook began his painstaking. Nootka Sound, on the Pacific coast of Vancouver Island in Canada, was discovered by Captain Cook in his two ships, Resolution and Discovery in 1778. Cook and the Cannibals: Nootka Sound, 1778 Reading the official 1784 edition of the journals of Captain James Cook's third Pacific voyage gives the impression that Cook's party encountered one group of cannibals after another.1 European readers of the time eagerly consumed such reports of cannibalism and assumed their verac ity. While there he traded with the natives, repaired the masts and rigging aboard Resolution, and surveyed the extensive inland waterways on the west coast of Vancouver. PDM Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1. Cook spent a month in Nootka Sound, also called King George’s Sound. As a result of trading sea otter pelts with the Cook expedition, Yuquot became known as a friendly village with large quantities of furs.

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#CAPTAIN COOK NOOTKA SOUND PLUS#

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer. Cook explored the rest of Nootka Sound, stopping at the Nootkan Village of Yuquot where John Webber, his shipboard artist, made water colour paintings of the sights. Keywords: impressions of nootka music, linguistic acculturation on the west coast of vancouver island.National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Cook's two ships spent about a month in Nootka Sound, from 29 March to 26 April 1778, in what Cook called Ship Cove, now Resolution Cove, at the south end of Bligh Island, about 5 miles (8 km) east across Nootka Sound from Yuquot, a Nuu-chah-nulth village (whose chief Cook did not identify but may have been Maquinna). On March 31, 1778, Captain Cook anchored in Resolution Cove for ship repairs, trading took place between the natives and Cook’s men. Andrew David in his book Charts and Coastal Views of Captain Cooks Voyages: Volume Three: The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery 1776-1780 (Hakluyt Society, 1997, ISBN 0-90), says the cove 'is named Ship Cove on all the surviving surveys of the sound and on the subsequent engraved chart It was renamed Resolution Cove by the. Location Published: Victoria, Province of British Columbia / British Columbia Provincial Museum: 1978Ĭategories: British Columbia, Canadian History, Native Peoples Title: Nutka (Nootka) - Captain Cook and the Spanish Explorers on the Coast: Sound Heritage Volume VII, Number 1Īuthor Name: Efrat, Barbara S.

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