McKenzie, James. Some Account of the King's Posts, the Labrador Coast, and the Island of Anticosti by an Indian Trader Residing there Several Years with a Description of the Natives and the Journal of a trip through those Countries in 1808 by the Same Person. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0017
Birth. But to return to the main object[.]
Since the Indians themselves can furnish us with no documents to trace their Origin we are left to wander in the unlimitted wilderness of conjecture and probably may get nearer the truth by comparing the feautures customs and languages of different nations and tribes together than by any of their own fabulous stories. My part of this task is to transmit you as faithful a copy as possible of the original before me by the resemblance of which to other portraits of the same kind in your possession you may likely discover whether they be descendants of Jem, Ham, or Japhet or of a Dog like the Chepewans of Atha[.]
Pere LaBrosse, a learned Jesuit, maintained that when Solomon formed the Design of building the famous Temple of Jerusalem he dispatched a Vessel to every known part of the Globe for Artists and Materials that one of those Vessels was driven by a storm
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