Excerpt from David Cusick's Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations, Comprising, First, a Tale of the Foundation of the Great Island, (Now North America, ) the Two Infants Born, and the Creation of the Universe: Second, a Real Account of the Early Settlers of North America, and Their Dissensions; Third, Origin of the Kingdom of the Five Nations, Which Was Called a Long House: The Wars, Fierce Animals, &C I have been long waiting in hopes that some of my people, who have received an Eng fiiah education, would have undertaken the work as to give a sketch of the Ancient History of the Six Nations but found no one seemed to concur in the matter, after some hesitation I determined to commence the work but found the history involved with fables and be sides, examining myself, finding so small educated that it was impossible for me to compose the work without much difficulty. After various reasons I abandoned the idea I however, took up a resolution to continue the work, which I have taken much pains procuring the materials, and translating itinto English language. I have endeavored to throw some light. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.