In this work he describes openly the manner of making the natives slaves, such as by kidnapping, by unjust accusations and trials, and by other nefarious means.

Burr was one of those men willing to play with any charming woman the game of those navigators who give to simple natives glass beads and feathers in return for gold and diamonds,to accept from a woman her heart's blood in return for such odds and ends and clippings as he can afford her from the serious ambition of life.

These tempests, which the Greeks called typhoons, are called by the natives huracanes.

As it is, like exotic plants, their mixture with the natives ones, I hope, adds beauty to my Botanic Garden:and such as it is, Mr. Bookseller, I now leave it to you to desire the Ladies and Gentlemen to walk in; but please to apprize them, that, like the spectators at an unskilful exhibition in some village-barn, I hope they will make Good-humour one of their party; and thus theirselves supply the defects of the representation.

For its usance I send a package of a new herb from the Chesapeake, called by the natives tobacco.

Again, if nature gave the natives teeth, was it not that they could pull out the upper and lower incisors, file them in points, and curve them in sharp fangs like the fangs of a rattlesnake?