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and for feveral years after, I little thought that 
any remarks made in it would ever have attract- 
ed the notice of the Public: if I had, greater 
pains might and would have been taken to ren- 
der it more worthy of their attention than it now 
is. At that time my ideas and ambition extend- 
ed no farther than to give my employers fuch an 
account of my proceedings as might be fatisfacto- 
ry to them, and aniwer the purpofe which they 
had in view ; little thinking it would ever come 
under the infpection of fo ingenious and indefa- 
tigable a geographer as Mr. Dalrymple muft be 
allowed to be. But as the cafe has turned out 
otherwife, I have at my lcifure hours recopied all 
my Journals into one book, and in fome inftan- 
ces added to the remarks I had before made; not~ 
fo much for the information of thofe who are 
critics in geography, as for the amufement of can- 
did and indulgent readers, who may perhaps feel 
themfelves in fome meafure gratified, by having 
the face of a country brought to their view, 
which has hitherto been entirely unknown to 
every European except myfelf. Nor will I flat- 
ter myfelf, a defcription of the modes of living, 
manners, and cuftoms of the natives, (which, 
though long known, have never been’ defcribed. ) 
be lefs acceptable to the curious. 
I cannot help obferving, that I fecl myfelf ra- 
ther hurt at Mr. Dalrymple’ s rejecting my latitude 
in fo peremptory a manner, and in fo great a pro- 
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