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The Private Journal of Capt. Lyon's

Captain George F. Lyon (1795-1832)

Originally published by John Murray, London (1825): CD-Academia Book Co.
© 2000 FIRST EDITION on CD-ROM. xi + 468 pp. + 6 engravings, 1 fold. map.

Personal use licence: $24.95.

Captain Lyon was in command of HMS HECLA on Parry's Second Expedition. They spent almost two years in the vicinity of the Inuit community of Igloolik while searching for the ice-choked Fury and Hecla Strait. He befriended native people and took a deep interest in their customs.

This Journal is one of the earliest and most complete descriptions of the
"…habits and dispositions of a people entirely separated from the rest of the world." The Author passes no judgments and simply reports what he observed. Often, he is amazed at the reliance of the native people, surviving under harshest conditions, and allows a great deal of latitude for certain habits that would have been abhorred by his own society back home.