HeyJaredCaptivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound
John Jewitt, a blacksmith turned captive, shares his harrowing survival tale from 1803 to 1806 among the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound, Canada.
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