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To the Right Worfliipful 



Sir ET> W A %JD KYSCHM* 



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Moll honoured Sir, 



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Ou have fufficiently (atisfied the 

 World of the Curiofity you have 

 for whatever, in any meafure, de- 

 fer ves it : You were pleas'd to give mc a hint 

 of the Piece I here prefent you withal ; and 

 your recommendation of the Original might 

 well raife in me a hope of your readier accep- 

 tance of the Tranflation. It is the nobleft of 

 humane Actions tovouchfafc a kind Enter- 

 tainment to the Diftrefs d, whether Nature or 

 Fortune hath made them Calamitous. The 

 equality of Mifery makes the Endurers of it 

 mo ft commonly the more compafsionate ; fo 

 far as that thofe who have been firft rehev'd 

 cjiaritably dired: others to the fame Almoners. 



Thus do I bring to your doors, a company 

 of poor Qaribbians, to offer you their Refpe&s 

 and Submifsicfns , in the name of all thofe 

 Iflands , whereof their Anceftors have been 

 heretofore poflefsd in the Ocean of America : 

 They are in hopes, that neither the obfeurity of 

 their Ongine, nor the harfhnefs of their Lao* 

 guage, nor the barbarifme of their Manners, 

 nor tneir ftrange courfe of Life,nor the cruelty 

 of their Wars, nor their ancient Poverty, nor 

 A z laftly 



