New Voyages to North-America; with Supplement: A Dialogue Between the Author and Adario, a Noted Man Among the Savages

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Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce; Gueudeville Lahontan, Nicolas. New Voyages to North-America. Containing an Account of the Several Nations of That Vast Continent; Their Customs, Commerce, and Way of Navigation upon the Lakes and Rivers; the Several Attempts of the English and French to Dispossess One Another; with the Reasons of the Miscarriage of the Former; and the Various Adventures between the French, and the Iroquese Confederates of England, from 1683 to 1694. A Geographical Description of Canada, and a Natural History of the Country, with Remarks upon Their Government, and the Interest of the English and French in Their Commerce. Also a Dialogue between the Author and a General of the Savages, Giving a Full View of the Religion and Strange Opinions of Those People: With an Account of the Author's Retreat to Portugal and Denmark, and His Remarks on Those Courts. To Which Is Added, a Dictionary of the Algonkine Language, Which Is Generally Spoke in North-America. Illustrated with Twenty-Three Maps and Cuts (2).