his commitment to truly believing that the Huron way of life of boiled meals and beaver skins is satisfying. Adario questions the French lifestyle and calls upon Lahontan to think about how his ancestors lived, to which Lahontan replies that Adario must "relish too much the savage strain." After a discussion on the tranquility of the mind, Adario suggests that Lahontan should become a Huron in order to prolong his life. Lahontan's response consists of worry for the risk such an act would engender in France as well as his questions about being able to subsist on the Huron diet, to which Adario proclaims Lahontan prefers slavery to liberty. Fourth Meeting: Lahontan comes to Adario offering sympathies for Adario's grandfather who is ill. Adario promptly blames the French medical methods for the deaths of others he knew and his discontent for the fact that men are dying that should have lived much longer. In this discussion Lahontan and Adario express their views concerning medicine. The dialogue concludes here with a reiteration of both Adario's and Lahontan's perceptions of French and Huron society: Lahontan compares the savage to a clown, and Adario claims that the French are as foolish as the natives. Interpretations Les Sauvages Américains Les Sauvages Américains by Gordon Sayre describes 17th century New France and North America by exploring both what Lahontan was writing about as well as Lahontan himself in order to create a picture of how European were interacting with the Native Americans and how both parties felt about each other. Sayre writes that Lahontan’s “text both analyzes Indian life for insights into European culture and imposes European categories on Indian culture.” Sayre also points on that unlike others at the time who interpreted the actions of the natives from a religious and moral perspective Lahontan used one of enlightenment, puts him ahead of the times. This is especially true with reference to native customs, in which he believed that “strong passions such as love and jealousy were contrary to reason, and led to pointless strife and violence.” The work is significant in Sayre's opinion for its ethnographic fieldwork. Lahontan’s letters though incredibly knowledgeable in providing information about his travels in New France could be limited by “time and experience” suggests Sayre whereas the memoirs stem from a large collection of documents leaving some inconsistency. The details are valuable for learning the facts about the fur