Ae bBo NG Dia EL pe aN is 

TO 
THE HONORABLE 
DAINES BARRINGTON. 
Dear Sir, 
NOW execute the promife I made in town fome time ago, 
of communicating to you the refult of my vifit to Mr. Falk- 
ener, an antient jefuit, who had paffed thirty-eight years of his 
life in the fouthern part of South America, between the river /a 
Plata and the ftreights of Magellan. Let me endeavor to pre- 
judice you in favor of my new friend, by affuring you, that by 
his long intercourfe with the inhabitants of Patagonia, he feems 
to have loft all European guile, and to have acquired all the fim- 
plicity, and honeft impetuofity, of the people he has been fo 
long converfant with. I venture to give you only as much of 
his narrative as he could vouch for the authenticity of ; which con- 
fits of fuch facts as he was eye-witnefs to, and fuch as will (I be- 
lieve) eftablith paft contradiétion the veracity of our late circum- 
navigators, 
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