Second English edition, issue with Vol. II published by Walthoe, Bonwicke, et al. Lahontan spent twenty years in Canada fighting the Iroquois and traveling about, and exploring along the Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers. Forced into exile for his unsympathetic accounts of the civil and ecclesiastical administration of Canada, Lahonton is today best remembered not for the value of the accounts of his explorations, but for his inserting account of a pretended trip west of the Mississippi which he undoubtedly could not have made. Streeter notes that "Lahontan's work is devoted almost entirely to the description of Indian life in Canada, and is one of the best early works on the subject." The maps of the Great Lakes area are quite detailed, if speculative (some say spurious), and the striking array of plates depict natives in many aspects. Howes L25; Sabin 38645-6.