White Slave of the Nootka,
a true story by John Jewitt, an armourer on the unlucky ship the Boston
whose crew of 22 were slaughtered by the Nootka, on the west coast of Vancouver Island in 1803. Jewitt and one other were the only survivors. Since Jewitt was a blacksmith he was spared by CHief Maquinna
and kept as a slave. He took on a Nootka wife and lived among the tribe for a few years. The journal that he kept is a remarkable record of the people of the westcoast of the time.
Petr