The Preface. 



that choice proceeded from the Rela* * Letter 

 Hon I Qorrefponded with j for that 7t 6 

 honefl Gentleman ridiculed the Metaphorical Ha- 

 rangue of the * Grangula; and in treated me not 

 to make a literal Tranjlation of a Language that 



' was fo fluffed with Fictions and Savage sRy pet- 

 ioles. Tis for this reafon that all the Difcour- 



fes and Arguments of thofe Nations, are here 

 accommodated to /^ European Style and way of 

 Speaking ; for having comply } d with my Friend's 

 Requefl, I contented my felf in keeping only a 

 Copy of the Letters I writ to him, during my 

 Pilgrimage in the Country of thefe naked Philo- 



fophers. 



'Twill not he improper to acquaint the Reader 

 hy the bye, that thofe who know my faults, do as 

 little jujlice to thefe People, as they do to me, 

 in a Hedging I am a Savage my felf, and that that 

 makes we (peak fo favourably of my Fellow- Sa- 

 vages. Thefe Obfervators do me a great deal of 

 Honour, as long as they do not explain themj elves, 

 fo as to make me direflly of the fame Character 

 with that which is tack' d to the word Savage by 

 the Europeans in their way of thinking : For in 

 faying only that lam of the fame temper with the 

 Savages, they give me without deftgn, the Cha- 

 racter of the honejlefl Man in the World. 'Tis an 

 uncontefled truth, that the Nations which are not 

 debauch 9 d by the Neighbourhood of the Europeans, 

 are fir angers to the Meafures 0/Meum and Tuum, 

 and to all Laws, Judges, and Friefts. This cant 

 be calfd in quejiion, ftnce all Travellers that 

 have vijited thofe Countries, vouch for its truth | 

 and a great many of different Frofejjions, have 



