Gottlieb Mittelberger

“ The communications from the realm of nature, the animals, plants, etc., will no less arrest the attention of the reader, inasmuch as the wise Creator has placed an entirely new theatre of his miracles before the eyes of rational man. ”

“ What the author narrates with simplicity and without ornamentation of the various Europeans and the American savages, their manners and customs, their laws, domestic and religious institutions, is for the most part new and of such a nature that thinking readers will be glad to perceive in it a special mingling of the European and American climate, of the customs of the Old and the New World, and of a civilized people living in part in natural freedom. ”