XIV EDITORS PREFACE. 



have helped the Editor not a Httle. It may not 

 be out of place also here to record the very great 

 boon which the London Library has proved itself to 

 be for any writer who resides out of town, and at a 

 distance from the British Museum, when engaged 

 on a work requiring constant references. 



The secretary of the Hakluyt Society has oblig- 

 ingly revised, suppressed, altered, and added to 

 many of the Editor's original notes throughout the 

 first part. Whilst thanking him for his efforts to 

 secure additional correctness by his revision, the 

 Editor is reluctantly compelled to dissent from some 

 of the conclusions arrived at and published by his 

 coadjutor, especially in those notes on the Banyan, 

 the Pandanus, and the Pepper, wherein Mr. Delmar 

 Morgan differs from the opinion formed after per- 

 sonal observation by that expert botanist, Professor 

 Bayley Balfour.^ Finally, the revision of the second 

 part by Mr. Clements P. Markham, and his timely 

 correction of a very important mis-statement in the 

 first part, deserves the hearty recognition and thanks 

 of the Editor. Mr. Wm. Griggs, by his admirable 

 facsimile reproductions of the original plates, has 

 largely contributed to the complete illustration of 



the text. 



S. Pasfield Oliver. 



Moray House, Stokes Bay, Gosport. 

 16 May 1891. 



1 Vide pp. 65, 67, 103, 104, etc. The entire list of the numerous 

 notes furnished by Mr. Delmar Morgan is given in the Index. 

 The Supplementary Note on the Dugong is especially valuable. 



