Excerpt from New Voyages to North-America, Vol. 2: Giving a Full Account of the Customs, Commerce, Religion, and Strange Opinions of the Savages of That Country
Accounts of things that-are faid to have happen'd before the date of that Invention 3 In all liability they knew no more of the't'nattet.
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