The Preface* 



Country with a certain Huron, whom ^French 

 call Rat. While 1 ftayd at that American V 

 Village, I imployd my time very agreeahly in ma- 

 king a careful Collection of all his Arguments and 

 Opinions ; and as foon as I return d from my V oy- 

 age upon the Lakes of '.Canada, / fhewdmy Ma- 

 nufcript to Count Frontenac, who was fo pleas d 

 with it, that he took the pains to ajjift me in 

 digefling the Dialogues, and bringing them into 

 the order they now appear in ; For he fore that 9 

 they were abrupt Conferences without Connexion. 

 Upon the Solicitation of thefe Engliili Gentlemen^ 

 1 7 ve put thefe Dialogues into the hands of the 

 P erf on who tranflated my Letters and Memoirs : 

 And if it had not been for their prefjing Injlan- 

 ces, they had never feen the light ; for there are 

 but few in the World that will judge imparti- 

 ally, and without prepojfej/ion, of fome things con- 

 tain d in 'em. 



I have likewife tntrufled the fame Tranflator 

 with fome Remarks that I made in Portugal, 

 and Denmark, when I fled thither from New- 

 found-Land. There the Reader will meet with a 

 defcription of Lisbon and Copenhagen, and of 

 the capital City of Arragon. 



To the Tranflation of my firfi P r olume^ I have 

 added an exatt Map of Newfound-Land, which 

 was not in the Original. I have likewife cor- 

 retied almofl all the Cuts of the Holland Im- 

 preffion, for the Dutch Gravers had murder f d 

 em, by not under/landing their Explications, which 

 were all in French, They have gravd Women 

 for Men, and Men for Women ; naked Perfons 

 for thofe that are c loaf If d, and e Contra. As 



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