原文 (英语)

THE IROQUOIS BOOK OF RITES. EDITED BY HORATIO HALE; M.A., AUTHOR OF "THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE U.S. EXPLORING EXPEDITION," ETC. PREFACE. The aboriginal composition now presented to the public has some peculiar claims on the attention of scholars. As a record, if we accept the chronology of its custodians,—which there is no reason to question,—it carries back the authentic history of Northern America to a date anterior by fifty years to the arrival of Columbus. Further