The Preface. 



given the World repeated affur antes that 'tis fo. 

 Now this being granted, we ought not to fcruple 

 to believe, that thefe are fuch wife and reafona- 

 ble People. I take tt, a Man mufe be quite blind \ 

 who do's not fee that the property of Goods ( I do 

 not [peak of the ingrojftng of Women) is the only 

 Source of all the DiJ orders that perplex the Eu- 

 ropean Societies, Upon that Confederation 'twill 

 be eafie to perceive, that I have not fpoke wide 

 in defer ibing that Wifdom and Acutenefs which 

 pines through the Words and Anions of thefe 

 poor Americans. If all the World had accefs to 

 the Books of Voyages, that are found in fome well 

 flock 'd ' Libraries, they would fend in above a hun- 

 dred Defer ipt ions of Canada, an infinity of Dif- 

 courfes and Arguments offer d by the Savages, 

 which are incomparably flronger, and more ner- 

 vous than thofe tve inferted in my Memoirs. 



As ) (or fuch as doubt of the Inflinit and wonder- 

 ful capacity of Beavers, they need only to cafe their 

 Eyes upon the Great Map of America, drawn by 

 the Sieur de Fer, and gravd at Paris in the 

 year 1698. Where they will meet with fever al 

 furprifeng things, relating to thefe Animals. 



While my Book was a Printing in Holland, / 

 was in England ; and 4$ foon as it appear d, 

 fever al Enghili Gentlemen of a diftingui (ling Me- 

 rit, who underfland the French as well as their 

 Mother Tongue, gave me to know, that they would 

 be glad to fee a more ample Relation of the Man- 

 ners and Qufloms of the People of that Continent^ 

 whom we call by the name of Savages. This ob~ 

 ligd me to communicate to thefe Gentlemen, the 

 jubilance of ihs feveral Conferences I had in that 



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