The Preface. 



and the other Savage Nations, from the year 1683, 

 to 1694, Together with a great many curious 

 Remarks, that may he of ufeto thofe who have a- 

 ny knowledge of the Englifh or French Colonies. 



The whole is writ with a great deal of Fidelity • 

 jor I reprefent things jufl as they are. I neither 



flatter nor fpare any P erf on what- 

 * called by the Eng. f oever . I attribute to the * Iro- 



hih in New* York, J r 7 1 t ? 



Mabak. quele, the glory they have pur- 



chafed on fever al occafions, tho 

 at the fame time I hate that Rafcally People, as 

 much as Horns and Law-Suits. Notwithflanding 

 the V deration I have for the Clergy, I impute 

 to them all the mif chief the Iroquefe have done 

 to f/^. French Colonies, in the courfe of a War 

 that had never been undertaken, if it had not 

 been for the Counfels of ihefe pious Church- 

 Men. 



The Reader is defir d to take notice that the 

 Towns 0/ New- York* are known to //^French 

 by their old Names only^ and for that reafon I 

 was obligd to make ufe of the fame in my Let- 

 ters, as well as my Mapps, They give the name 

 of New- York to all that Country^ that* reaches 

 from the Source of its River to the Mouth, that 

 is, to the Ifland, upon which there ftands a City 

 call'd in the time of the Dutch Manathe, and 

 mw by the Englifh, New- York. In like man* 

 ner the Plantation of Albany, that lies towards 

 the head of the River, is call'd by the French, 

 Orange, > 



Farther.; I would not have the Reader to take 

 it amifs, that the thoughts of the 1 Savages are 

 Jet forth in an European Drefs. The occafton of 



that 



