His description of his captivity among the Iroquois makes it clear that Radisson liked them, and that they in turn were both flattered and intrigued by the young man…His writings about life among the Iroquois have very few of the usual insults and slurs against Indigenous peoples that show up in the books written by Champlain, the Jesuits, and the few other Europeans who left a record of their time in the Great Lakes country.