The Preface. 



2. The Reader is to note, that where fame accident is 

 f aid to have happened four or jive, or fame other number 

 of years fence (as for in fiance, pag. 14. where itisfaid 

 in the fa words, that, two years fince they were forced 

 to quit their Villages, Sec.) it is to be referred to the 

 coming forth of the Original Edition, which was in the 

 year M. DC. LVllL 



3. That whereas there might well be expeSled before 

 this Wor\ a Map of the Caribby -Iflands in general, as 

 alf ? particular ones of the moft eminent Iflands, the Rea- 

 der is to content him f elf with this fatkfa&ion from the 

 Stationers, that if an accurate one of the whole, that is 

 fuch a one as might have been fuitable to the other Em.be- 

 li foments of the pre fantWorh^, could have been procu- 

 red, it Jbouldnot have been wanting: With this further afa 



i furance, that if what is done at the prefent meet with the 

 reception expeSled, the next Imprejfion foall be furnijhed 

 not only with the for ementioned Map, but alfa fame other 

 Pieces of Ornament, whereof the laft years diftra&ion, 

 and want of time now have obftruSled the infartion* 



Laftly, whereas manyperfans of worth (though more in 

 the Original then in the Translation ) are mentioned in fe- 

 ver al places as Inhabitants of the fore f aid Colonies, there 

 is only this to be f nd j that as the inflaming of them adds 

 famewhat to the certainty of the Relations i fa it may lihg- 

 wifa ferve to undeceive many Europeans, who are either 

 fa ill-informed of thofe Iflands, or fo prejudiced agjinft 

 them, as to be perfvoaded, that, for the moft part, they are 

 only the refuges and receptacles of Bankrupts and de- 

 bauched pet fans j the contrary being mo ft certain \ to wit, 

 that they are inhabited by an infinite number of Families 

 of good repute, which live civilly and in the fear of God. 



J. D. 



