[Footnote 11_a_: Page 6.--The following note with respect to this able
priest's writing is taken from 'Nar. and Crit. Hist. Am.,' iv., 298,
299: "The Jesuit Lafitau published at Paris in 1724 his 'Mœurs des
Sauvages Amériquains' in two volumes, with various plates, which in
the main is confined to the natives of Canada, where he had lived long
with the Iroquois. Charlevoix said of his book, twenty years later, 'We
have nothing so exact on the subject;' and Lafitau continues to hold
high rank as an original authority, though his book is overlaid with a
theory of Tartaric origin of the red race. Mr. Parkman calls him 'the
most satisfactory of the elder writers.'" Garneau, ii., 154, mentions
that he discovered in 1716 a plant in the Canadian forests which is
of the nature of ginseng, which for awhile was a valuable article of
export to Canton. Eventually it became valueless in China on account of
its being prepared improperly.]