Travels Through the Interior Parts of North-America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Travels Through the Interior Parts of North-America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768

Al u 3 parts of them, and to {pare no trouble or expence in acquiring a knowledge that promifed to be fo ufeful to my country men. I knew that many obfirué'tions would arife to my fcheme from the want of good Maps and Charts; for the French, whilfl: they retained their power in North America, had taken every artful method to keep all other nations, particularly the Englilh, in ignorance of the concerns of the interior parts. Of it:' and to accomplilh this defign with the greater certainty, they' had publifhed inaccurate maps and falfe accounts; calling the different nations of the Indians by nicknames they had given them, and not by thofe really ap pertaining to them. Whether the intention of the French in doing this, was to pre vent thefe nations from being difcovered and traded with, or to conceal their dif courfe, when they talked to each other of the Indian concerns, in their prefence.

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