SOURCE: Hutchings, Kevin D. “Writing Commerce and Cultural Progress in Samuel Hearne's A Journey … to the Northern Ocean.” ARIEL 28, no. 2 (April 1997): 49-78.

In the following essay, Hutchings seeks to provide a middle ground between those scholars who see Hearne's writings as passive and unbiased and those who view the explorer as an imperial colonist, concentrating on Hearne's evolving awareness of differences between English and aboriginal cultures.

… though it is not to be supposed that the compiler of a general work can be intimately acquainted with every subject of which it may be necessary to treat, yet a very moderate share of understanding is surely sufficient to guard him against giving credit to … marvellous tales, however smoothly they may be told, or however boldly they may be asserted, by the romancing traveller.

Samuel Hearne, A Journey … to the Northern Ocean

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