[Kane, Paul]:

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LES INDIENS DE LA BAIE D'HUDSON. PROMENADES D'UN ARTISTE PARMI LES INDIENS DE L'AMÉRIQUE DU NORD DEPUIS LE CANADA JUSQU'A L'ÌLE DE VANCOUVER ET ... First French edition, following the London 1859 printing, of the writings of Anglo-Canadian artist Paul Kane. In 1845, after studying painting in Europe, Kane returned to his native Toronto, "took his brushes and his rifle," and commenced a four-year journey with the aim of portraying the various Indians he encountered. Kane's travels took him around the Great Lakes region, across the Saskatchewan plains, over the Rocky Mountains, along the Columbia River in Oregon, to Puget Sound, to Vancouver Island, and back again. Along the way Kane encountered sometimes unfriendly Indians, lived from his hunting, and occasionally made use of the often rudimentary shelters established by the Hudson's Bay Company.The translator, Édouard Delessert, ends his preface with an appeal for similar narratives to be written by French adventurers, since "if the French wrote as much as they talked, it would be the damnation of the English."

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