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firmed me in this Opinion is a Defcription of the Samoeds [Man-Eaters] to the North- 
Eafl of Archangel in RiiJIia : See L^e Bruyn's Travels into Mufcovyy Berfia^ &c. VoL L 
Page 6. Lc Bruy?i was bred a Limner, and has been at the. Pains to figure a Head of 
one of the Samoeds in Large, on a Folio Page, which gives every one that has feeii 
any of the IS or th- American People a perfect Idea of them. 
The whole Account of their Habits,, Way of Living, Cuftoms, and Manners, is 
fo like what we fee in Voyagers, who have wrote on the North AmericanSy that they 
feem almofl the fame. 1 have teen feveral of the American Chiefs in England^ and 
on feeing the Samoed^s Head in Le Bruyn, they were fo firongly reprefentcd by it,., 
that I thought it had been a Print’ mifplaced till I read the whole Hifiory of thefe 
People. I have alfo received Prefents of Habits from Hudfon' s-~Bay in North-Americay 
that anfwer the Defcriptions Le Bruyn has given of the Habits thefe Riijjian Savages 
are cloathed in, as nearly as if they were the fame. 
In my Preface to the firfl Part of this Hiilory I have mentioned depofiting a Copy 
of this Book in the Library of the College of Phyficians, London ; and here I think 
proper to let the Publick know, that I defigii to lodge this Hifliory of Birds com- 
pleat, and jiifily coloured,, in the Library of the Royal Society, both which Books 
may hereafter ferve as Standards to compare others with, to prove, or diiprove the. 
Jufinefs of their Colouring : I fhall alfo,. if peaceable Times will permit, endeavour 
by fome Means or other to lodge a perfedl coloured Copy in the Library of the Aca- 
demy Royal of Sciences at Pans. A Point of Gratitude obliges me to prefent this. 
Book to the Royal Society, fince I have fo many Friends among that Learned and Cu-^ 
riousBody, who always have been ready and willing to introduce me to their Meetings : 
1 have been farther obliged, in a more fingular Manner, by fome of the principal 
Gentlemen of the Royal Society j for not only their late Prefident, but the Prefi- 
dcnt now being, as well as their Treafurer, and feveral other Gentlemen of the So- 
ciety, very willingly and freely figned my Recommendation, when I offered myfelf 
a Candidate for a Fellowflnp in their Society. I have, through Inadvertency, com- 
mitted an Error in the Preface to the firfl Part of this Book, and think it proper here 
to redify it : It relates to the Pafiage of the Deer ; I have made them pafs Northward; 
in the Summer, and Southward in the Winter ; but I mufl quite reverfe this, and. 
.make them pafs into the Northern Parts in Winteiv and Southward in the Summer,, 
and it will be rights fee the Paffage, Page xii. of the Preface to the firfl Part. This 
makes the Thing more flrange, and contrary to our common Way of Reafoning, 
tlian it feems to be in the erroneous Account j but if we confider, that thefe Deer in 
the Winter are cloathed with an exceeding thick Covering, which falls of, and leaves* 
them very thinly cloathed in the Summer, it will rcconcile this Account a little 
to our Reafon. Arthur Dobbs ^ Efq. has remarked their Pafiage Northward in Win- 
ter, and Southward in Summer, in his Account and Natural Hiflory of Hudfon's^ 
Bay, 
Since I fent my Defcriptions to the Ptefs, I have feen at Sir Ha?2s Sloane'^ a very 
pompous Natural Hiflory, finely coloured, publifhed at Amfterdamy Anno 1734, by 
Albertus Seha ; in turning it over, I find fome Things in him that are the fame with 
fome I have publifiied, which are as follows : My little Indian King-FiJherSy Page 1 1,. 
agree with his Oriental KitigAnJljcry VoL h Page 104. My Blue Creeper^ and Golden^ 
