The Pathfinder; Or, The Inland Sea

It is not an easy task, however, to introduce the same character in four separate works, and to maintain the peculiarities that are indispensable to identity, without incurring a risk of fatiguing the reader with sameness;

然而，将同一个角色引入四部不同的作品，并保持其独特性，这对于身份来说是不可或缺的，而不至于让读者因重复而感到疲劳，这并非易事；

It may strike the novice as an Anachronism to place vessels on the Ontario in the middle of the eighteenth century; but in this particular facts will fully bear out all the license of the fiction.

新手可能会觉得在十八世纪中期的安大略湖上放置船只是一种时代错误；但在这个特定情况下，事实将完全支持小说中的所有自由发挥。