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a Dutch version was printed at Utrecht in quarto} 

 These original editions were soon followed by Ger- 

 man translations printed at Frankfort and Leipsic in 

 1709, another French edition was produced in Lon- 

 don in 1720, and an abridged edition appeared later 

 in ] 792, [There was another abstract translation 

 published under the title of Tlie French Robinson^ 



Bon Esperance, dans I'isle de Sainte Heleue, et en d'autres 

 endroits de leiu- route. Le tout enrichi de cartes et de 

 figures." (Two vols., 12ino. London and Amsterdam, Mortier, 

 1708.) 



1 Original Dutch Title : — " De gevaarlyke en zeldzame Reyzen 

 van den Heere Fran9ois Leguat. Met zyn byhebbeud Gezelschap 

 Naar twee Oubewoonde Oostindische Eylanden. Gedaan zedert 

 den jare 1690, tot 1698 toe. Behelzende een nankeurig verhaal van 

 hunne scheepstocht ; hun tweejaarig verblijf op het Eylandt 

 Eodrigtte, en hoe wonderlyk zy daar af gekomen zijn. Als meede 

 De wreede mishandelingen door den Gouverneur van Mauritius ; 

 hun driejaarig bannissement op een Rots in Zee; en hoe zy door 

 ordre der Compagnie V Amsterdam, buyten verwagting, daar 

 afgehaald en naar Batavia gevoerd wierden. Uyt het Frans in't 

 Neerduyts overgebragt. En met noodige Landkaarten en 

 verdere Figuureu voorzien. Te Utrecht. By AVillem Broedelet, 

 Boekverkoper op den Dam, 1708." 



Translation : — " The perilous and wonderful voyages of Herr 

 Francois Leguat and his companions to two uninhabited. East 

 Indian Islands, made between the years 1690 and 1698, containing 

 a minute account of their voyage, of their two years' stay on the 

 Island of Rodrigue, and of the wonderful escape from it. Like- 

 wise, of the cruel ill-treatment by the Governor of Maimtius, of their 

 banishment during three years on a rock in the sea, and how they 

 were unexpectedly fetched away by order of the Company at 

 Amsterdam and taken to Batavia. Translated from the French 

 into Dutch. With the necessary maps and other illustra- 

 tions." 



^ German abstract. — Der Franzbsiche Robinson, oder F. L.'s 

 Reisen und Begebenheiten in Bibliothek der Robiusone, 1805. 



