18 EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION 



ever disagreeable or repulsive, are recorded in detail, and 

 the book will consequently always remain a classic in American 

 ethnology. 



The manuscript report on Hearne's exploration was sub- 

 mitted to the directors of the Hudson's Bay Company 

 immediately after his return, and they highly commended 

 him for the work he had done, and gave him a handsome 

 bonus. ^ The first account of his journey which seems to 

 have been published was given to the world in 1784 in the 

 " Introduction to Cook's Third Voyage," pp. xlvi~l, written 

 by Dr. John Douglas, Bishop of Salisbury, who later also 

 edited Hearne's own book. The route followed by Hearne 

 on his successful third journey is incorporated in the general 

 map of the world accompanying this book. A Mr. Roberts, 

 who prepared this map, makes the following note with regard 

 to it : — 



"The whole of Hudson's Bay I took from a chart compiled by Mr. 

 Marley, from all the most authentic maps he could procure of those 

 parts, with which I was favoured by Samuel Wegg, Esq., F.R.S., and 

 Governor of that Company, who also politely furnished me with Mr. 

 Hearne's Journals and the map of his route to the Coppermine River, 

 which is faithfully inserted in the chart. 



"(Sgd.) Henry Roberts. 



" Shoreham, Sussex, May 18, 1784." ^ 



Another brief account of Hearne's trip is given in 

 "Pennant's Arctic Zoology," also published in 1784, while 

 his map is incorporated in one of the maps published in 



^ Mr. Beckles Willson, in his book " The Great Company," says, on I know 

 not what authority, that it was ^200. 



2 " Cook's Third Voyage," vol. i. Introduction, p. Ixxxi. London, 1784. For 

 purposes of comparison, the portion of this map which refers to Hearne is 

 republished at the end of the present volume. It is stated by Beckles Willson 

 in " The Great Company " that short accounts of his journey had been published 

 in 1773 3-iid again in 1778-80, but though diligent search has been made for 

 these accounts in the British Museum and elsewhere, no trace of them can be 

 found. 



