Re: Wild kettle and oxen

From: Alaca (P.Alaca_at_is.invalid)
Date: 02/08/05 

Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:16:22 +0100

David B wrote in: Iy3Od.103$bc1.3@newsfe3-win.ntli.net,

> Alaca wrote in message
> <420893eb$0$89630$ee9da40f@news.wanadoo.nl>...
>>
>> David B wrote in: 0y%Nd.1128$OI2.430@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net,
>>>
>>> Well, BNF Gallica has illustrations from Kalm's source, "Receuil
>>> des voyages au Nord" by J.F. Bernard. Check out image 26 in their
>>> selection [from Volume III, to face p.313 :] "Boeuf sauvage du
>>> Mississipi et de la Baie de Hudson".
>>>
>>> This link may have been generated specifically for my search, but
>>> give it a try:
>>> http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/ConsultationTout.exe?O=02300720
>>>
>>
>> What a wonderfull collection! Those maps! And the animals.
>> Image 26 gave, despite the right caption, the wrong illustration,
>> but is was easy to find.
>> Top: "Boeuf Sauvage du Mississipy & de la Baie de Hudson atta que
>> a coup de lance."
>> Bottom: "Boeuf pris par les Cornes avec des Cordes"
>>
>> Bison in both cases..
>
> Yes, but to add to the confusion, the illustration is placed with
> the "Relation du Détroit et de la Baye de Hudson" (par Mons.
> Jérémie) [vol III, pp. 305-356]. There is an online English edition
> of Jérémie's text, in which you will find references to musk-oxen...
> http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/cocoon/peel/13/21.html
> ...but not bison/buffalo.
>
> On the other hand, another text in the "Receuil" is the "Voyage en
> un pays plus grand que l'Europe, entre la Mer glaciale et le
> Nouveau Mexique" (by Hennepin) [vol V, title+ pp. 199-370]- and
> Hennepin is one of the earliest authorities for the presence of
> buffalo in the midwest, so it looks as if the writer of the
> illustration caption has assumed the two references to shaggy wild
> cattle by two separate authors in two parts of the continent
> referred to the same species.
>
> David B.
>
> PS: More interesting stuff from Jérémie:
> http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/cocoon/peel/13/20.html
> (early Danish explorers in Hudson's Bay)
> http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/cocoon/peel/13/22.html
> (use of copper by the native Americans)
> http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/cocoon/peel/13/37.html
> (bearded men with white kettles)

Dit you find in The Atlas of Canada this page about the
explorations 1497 - 1760? Here it is
http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/maps/historical/exploration 

-- 
 -- Peter Alaca --

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