DEDICATION, 



fraught with fubjects, equal, if not fuperior, in courage, 

 fcience, and preparation, to any that ever before had 



navigated the ocean. 



But they pofTerTed other advantages, in which, 

 beyond all comparison, they excelled former difcover- 

 ers. In place of hearts confufed with fantaftic no- 

 tions of honour and emulation, which conftantly led 

 to bloodfhed, theirs were filled with the moft bene- 

 ficent principles, with that noble perfuafion, the foun- 

 dation of all charity, not that all men are equal, but 

 that they are all brethren ; and that being fuperior 

 to the favage in every acquirement, it was for that 

 very reafon their duty to fet the example of mildnefs, 

 companion, and long-fuffering to a fellow -creature, 

 becaufe the weakeft, and, by no fault of his own, the 

 •leafl inftrucled, and always perfectly in their power, 



T h u s, without the ufual, and moft unwarrantable 

 exceffes, the overturning ancient, hereditary king- 

 doms, without bloodihed, or trampling under foot, 

 the laws of fociety and hofpitality, Your Majesty's 



fubjecls, 



