Excerpt from A View of the American Indians: Their General Character, Customs, Language, Public Festivals, Religious Rites, and Traditions; Shewing Them to Be the Descendants of the Ten Tribes of Israel Travels previous to the year 1816, when a volume was published at Trenton, New Jersey, by the Rev. Dr. Elias Boudinot, which bears for its title, fl Star in the Wes I, or a humble attempt to discover the long lost Ten Tribes of Israel. He gives the following account of himself and of his work. 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.