634 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER. 
wh ch wafhed the fhores of their conquefts, and c came, at 
the fame time, within twodays journey of the Mediterranean. 
To my endeavours it is owing that fo many ingenious gen- 
tlemen have had an opportunity of lending a hands to’ 
perfect the chart of that fea, which I hope is now in great 
forwardnefs. It would perhaps, too, have been more ge- 
nerous and liberal-minded in them, had they honoured the 
author of the liberty and fafety they enjoyed, with at leaft 
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a word of their approbation. Prifons and chains, ranfoms, - — 
torments, and perhaps death itfelf, were the calamities they 
ef{caped by my preparing their way,-and to this would have. 
been added the mifcarriage of their defign and their under- 
taking likewife*. : 
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* Not one fhip has ever yet entered the Red aca, as l am informed, without a copy of my 
letter and popes : 
