AUTHOR'S PREFACE, xix 



the heat of the fun on barren hills, robbers 

 on the roads, and petulant children in back 

 ftreets, are continually annoying a foreigner); 

 and landed on the ifland of Afcenfwn, where the 

 fun hatches the eggs of the tortoifes, and in a 

 fhort time ruins the conftitution of the mod 

 healthy. On the whole, however, I have no' 

 reafon to be forry for my voyage, from the 

 kind reception with which the directors of the 

 Eajl India company have honoured me on my 

 return: the fame year they gave me leave to 

 go on a fecond voyage, which fome interven- 

 ing obilacles obliged me to lay afide. 



I have added the letters of the late chap- 

 lain of the Gothic l^on,Mx. Toreen, to my jour- 

 nal. This perfon died foon after his return 

 from Suratte; but deferves always to be re- 

 n ^hered by his friends, on account of his 

 lc rnmg and integrity. Other Swedes (defir- 

 ous of extending knowledge) are ready alfo to 

 publifli accounts of their travels, would but 

 th*» affluent give encouragement to thofe who 

 cm. -avour to be ufefui to the public on their 

 voyages, by promoting difcoveries in natural 



hiftory 



