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Captain McNeill arrived on the northwest Pacific in 1819 as first mate on a Boston fur trade vessel. He returned in 1832 on the Llama, sold it to the Hudson Bay Company and was retained by the Company as the captain.
William Henry McNeill was a Boston boy who went to sea at 13 years of age 1814. In 1817, he was appointed first mate of the Boston Brigantine, Paragon, under Dixey Wilde of the Boston firm, Marshall and Wilde. After a season of trading on the coast, he returned to Boston. He returned to the northwest in the Brigantine, Llama. As he rounded Cape Horn he said in the log that it would be his last time around Cape Horn. He traded on the coast for a season. On a visit to the Nass River he stole Chief Sakawan's wife, Matilda, and sailed to The Sandwich Islands. There he sold t | |  | | Strange Possession at Viner Sound
The story of six lives, Two half-breeds (Matti and Bessie), a Chief at the Indian village of Gwayasdums (Chief Joseph, a Shaman at the village (Caring-well) and two Kwakiutl boys (Lad and Jojo) held captive at a secret Japanese radio base during WWII. Their lives are interwoven in the novel
When Matti Wilson is anchored in Viner Sound he is possessed by the spirit of Jojo, a young Kwakiutl boy held prisoner at a secret Japanese radio base during World War II. Jojo tells Matti the story of his life in a series of seven visions. Matti takes on a contract to map all the clear-cut logging sites on the coast and employs Bessie David as crew on his sailing vessel. She is a feisty young woman who needs the money for university. During the summer she falls in love with this old man. Over three summers she manages to convince him to accept her as his partner. Matti tells his cousin, Ca |
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