The Preface. 



nay they acknowledge, that both the Natural and Moral 

 fart of this Hifiory might be much enlarged \ but with 

 this advertisement , that if every fart of the New- world 

 were fo diligently examined by Hiftorians as this hath 

 been, the Old-world would have a much more particular 

 account thereof than it hath at the prefent. 



They have alfo thought it not beftde their purpofe, efpe- 

 cially in the Moral part of the Hifiory, to cite the Writings 

 of divers other well-known Authours,not out of any defign 

 to enlarge the Volume, as fome might haply imagine \ hit to 

 make a certain parallel between the Morality of our Carib- 

 bians, and that of divers other yet Barbarous Nations', 

 which they conceiv'd would not be un delightful to fome, 

 even though they looked on them as fo many digrejpons 

 from,or interruptions of the Carribbian Hiflory. But what 

 cenfure foever may bepaffed on them, they hope that if any 

 fh all thinly them not necejfarily relating to the main defign 

 of the Draught, they may neverthelefs view them with a 

 certain pleafure, as the Drapery, confining of Flowers 

 and Fruits, Sic. for the greater ornament of the Piece. 



Dffcourfe is the image of the thought \ but the Draught 

 of a thing by way of Fainting or Graving reprefents the 

 thing it f elf From this con fi deration it came, that this 

 Piece is further adorn d with feveral pieces of Sculpture, 

 to the end that the IddCas of the things particularly treated 

 of might be the more throughly imprinted in the Readers 

 mind, by a f en fible demonf ration thereof 



Thus much as to the Authoiirs and DireSfors of the Ori- 

 ginal Edition. The PubUfher of the Englifh hath only 

 the fe few Remarks to trouble the Pleader wiihal. 



i. Thatpoffibly thofe of the Englifh Nation, who are in- 

 habitants in the Caribbics,>;/^y have peculiar names for 

 divers of the Plants, Bea^s, Birds ^Fifhes, Sec. mentioned 

 in this Treatife, much differen t from thofe which the Pub- 

 lifher hath u fed. Some of them, upon confutation with 

 fuch as had lived in thofe parts he made a fhift to get, and 

 in all likelihood might have gotten mo f of the reft, had not 

 the breaking forth of the lafi years Contagion caus'dwoft 

 of the Inhabitants of London, to retire to their Country 

 Habitations and Friends. 



1. The 



