The four kings of Canada being a succinct account of the four Indian princes lately arriv'd from North America : with a particular description of their country, their strange and remarkable religion, feasts, marriages, burials, remedies for their sick, customs, manners, constitution, habits, sports, war, peace, policy, hunting, fishing, utensils belonging to the savages, with several other extraor...
Facsimile of the 1710 edition, published by John Baker, London
"Enter'd in the Hall-Book of the Company of Stationers, persuant to Act of Parliament"
Imprint from verso of title page. Recto reads: Printed and sold by J. Baker, at the Black Boy in Pater-Noster-Row, 1710
"Price six-pence"
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SCNHRB copy (39088016457285) blind-embossed on title page: Bureau of American Ethnology Library [accession number] 14051
SCNHRB copy has newspaper clipping, "Rare manuscript," with handwritten note: Washington (D.C.) Star, Nov. 22, 1908
SCNHRB copy three-quarters bound in red sheepskin and marbled paper boards, title in gilt on spine, marbled endpapers; housed in an archival portfolio
Summary:
Four Iroquois chiefs (a fifth died en route) were taken to London by Col. Peter Schuyler of Albany. They were presented to Queen Anne on April 19, 1710 and entertained for some months (The Tatler, no. 171 and The Spectator, no. 50) as part of Schuyler's policy to strengthen the Iroquois alliance against the French. See the Bibliography of Canadiana, item 145. The four chiefs were: Etow Oh Koam, also known as Nicholas; Tee Yee Neen Ho Ga Row, also known as Hendrick; Sa Ga Yeath Qua Pieth Tow, also known as Brant (grandfather of the famous Mohawk leader, Joseph Brant); and, Ho Nee Yeath Taw No Row, also known as John
