Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Thomas Hutchinson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team BRINTON’S LIBRARY OF ABORIGINAL AMERICAN LITERATURE. NUMBER II. THE IROQUOIS BOOK OF RITES. EDITED BY HORATIO HALE; M.A., AUTHOR OF “THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE U.S. EXPLORING EXPEDITION,” ETC. PREFACE. The aboriginal composition now presented to the public has some peculiar claims