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e. 



An advertifement to the 



Reader. 



HE Reader mfijtvnderftand, that I 

 wrote the twofrftbookcs in Latine, 

 whenlw&s at Peru , And therefore 

 they fyeake of matters of the Indies., 

 as of things -prefent : Being fince r^- 

 tttrned wto$Tpzmy I thought good 

 to tranflatc them into our vulgar 

 tongue y and not to change my former 

 waner offreeach. But in thefvefollowing boohs , for that 

 I made them in Europe , / have becne forced to change my 

 ftile^ and therein to treate of matters of the Indies, a<$ of 

 'Countries and things abfent. Andforthat this divcrfitit of 

 fytech might with reafon offend the Reader, I have, thought 

 good to advert ife him thereof. 



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