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FINE TALL UNSOPHISTICATED COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS, of an account of the fur-trading expedition fitted out by the King George's Sound Company, with important results for the exploration and mapping of the American Northwest. The two ships were commanded by Dixon and the American-born Nathaniel Portlock, both veterans of Cook's last voyage. It includes accounts of the Hawaiian islands where they wintered in 1787-1788. The text was edited by Dixon from a series of letters by the Quaker, William Beresford.