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firmed me in this Opinion is a Defcription of the Samoeds [Man-Eaters] to the Nortli- 
Eafh of Archangel in RuJJia : See Le Bruyn's Travels into Mufcovy, Perjia, &c. VoL I. 
Page 6. Le Bruyn 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 feen 
any of the North-American People a perfect Idea of them. 
The whole Account of their Habits, Way of Living, Cufioms, and Manners, is 
fo like what we fee in Voyagers, who have wrote on the North Americans^ that they 
feem almoft the fame. I have feen feveral of the American Chiefs in England, and 
on feeing the Samoed'% Head in Le Bruyn, they were fo ftrongly reprefentcd by it, 
that I thought it had been a Print mifplaced till I read the whole Hiftory of thele 
People. I have alfo received Prefents of Habits from Hudfo 72 [s-Bay in North-America, 
that anfwer the Defcriptio-ns Le Bruyn has given of the Habits thefe RuJJian Savages 
are cloathed in,, as nearly as if they were the fame. 
In my Preface to the firfi: Part of this Hiftory 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 defign to lodge this Hiftory of Birds comr 
pleat, and juftly coloured, in the Library of the Royal Society, both which Books 
may hereafter ferve as Standards to compare others with, to prove, or dilprove the 
Juftnefs of their Colouring: I fhall alfo, if peaceable Times will permit, endeavour 
by fome Means or other to lodge a perfbdl coloured Copy in the Library of the Aca¬ 
demy Royal of Sciences at Parts. A Point of Gratitude obliges me to prefent this 
Book to the Royal Society, lince I have fo many Friends among that Learned and Cu¬ 
rious Body, who always have been ready and willing to introduce me to their Meetings: 
I have been farther obliged, in a more Angular Manner, by fome of the principal 
Gentlemen of the Royal Society; for not only their late Prefident, but: the Preftr 
dent 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 Fellowfhip in their Society. I have,, through Itiadvertency, com¬ 
mitted an Error in the Preface to the firft Part of this Book, and think it proper here 
to redify it; It relates to the Paffage of the Deer-, P have made them pafs Northward 
in the Summer, and Southward in the Winter j but I muft quite reverfe this, and 
make them pafs Into the Northern Parts in Winter, and Southward in the Summer, 
and it will be right; fee the Paffage, Page xii. of the Preface to the firft Part. This 
makes the Thing more ftrange, and contrary to our common Way of Reafoning, 
than it feerns to be in the erroneous Account ^ 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 reconcile this Acconnt a little 
to our Reafon. Arthur Dobbs, Efq. has remarked their Paffage Northward in Winr 
ter, and Southward in Summer, in his Account and Natural Hiftory of Hudfon's- 
Bay. 
Since I fent my Defcriptions to the Prefs, I have feen at Sir Dans Sloane'^ a very 
pompous Natural Hiftory, finely coloured, publifhed at Amflerdam, Anno 1734, by 
Albertiis Seba ; in turning it over, I find fome Things in him that are the fame with, 
fome t have publiftied, which are as follows: My little Indian King-Fijhers, Page 1,1. 
agree with his Oriental King-Fijher, Vol.l. Page 104. My Blue Creeper,, and Goldeti- 
headed 
