author's preface. Ixxxv 



I therefore conclude again, that those who tell the World 

 any thing that is Eare, and that they saw in very remote 

 Countries, are under an indispensable necessity to let the 

 Publick know clearly, and distinctly who they are, and even 

 to insinuate without Affectation, all the Particularities which 

 are proper to acquire Credit. From whence it naturally 

 follows, that the Authors of Eelations which have no Name 

 to them, are almost always Eogues and Cheats who impose 

 on the Publick, and generally propose some base end to 

 themselves by it. 



Sach a one most certainly is the Author^ of a Wretched 

 Pook that appeared two years agoe, under the Title of 

 Historical and Critical Itemarlcs, made in a Journal from 

 Italy to Holland, in the year 1704. Containing the Manners 

 of Carniola. This Impudent Anonymous Author, whom we 

 know, and who forg'd his Collection of Fables according to 

 his common Practice, had no other view, besides a little vile 

 and shameful Profit ; but to insult against all the rules of 

 Justice, a Person- whom he ought to Honour, and one who 

 has spar'd him too long; 'tis fit sometimes that certain 

 Eascalls should have a mark set upon them, and that the 

 World should know their Villainous Tricks, of which there 

 are very few Persons that wou'd be sensible, if they were 

 not told them. 3 



III. It has also been said to me, when I was once like to 

 die of a cruel Scurvy, at another time persecuted 

 by an Army of Eats ; when I have been expos'd to 

 the fury of the Tempests and Hurricanes, or have 

 been the Sport of a little Tyrant ; 'Why did you 

 engage yourself in such an Enterprise ? did not you 

 know that there is nothing more uncertain, nor 



1 Casimir Freschot. ( Vide aupra, p. xxviii.) 



2 Max. Misson. (Vide fupra, pp. xxviii, xxxi.) 



3 The whole of this paragraph betrays the hand of Misson. 



