Memoirs of Charles Dennis Rusoe d'Eres, a native of Canada
Subtitle: who was with the Scanyawtauragahrooote Indians eleven years, with a particular account of his sufferings, &c. during his tarry with them, and his safe return to his family connections in Canada : to which is added an appendix, containing a brief account of their persons, dress, manners, reckoning time, mode of government, &c. feasts, dances, hunting, weapons of war, &c. making peace, diversions, courtship, marriage, religious tenets, mode of worship, diseases, method of cure, burying their dead, character of the Scanyawtauragahrooote Indians, particular description of the quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects, which are to be met with on and in the vicinity of Scanyawtauragahrooote Island.
Contributors: Flagg, Charles Allcott, 1870-1920, former owner.; American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for, and sold by Henry Ranlet
Published: 1800
Place of publication: Exeter [N.H.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Rusoe D'Eres, Charles Dennis, b. 1761.; Indian captivities -- Canada.; Canada -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: LC copy has inserted 2 letters dated 1906 from Albert W. Curtis of Spencer, Mass. to Chas. A. Flagg on the subject of Charles Rouso.
Evans 38422
"A very rare book, but probably a fiction. The Scanyawtauragahrooote tribe is unknown, except to this writer"--Sabin 22731.
While much of the narrative appears to be imaginary, there is evidence that the writer did actually undergo captivity among the Indians, and that later he lived at Spencer, Mass., where he was known as Charles Rouso.
Signatures: A⁴ B-P⁶.