To the Reader. 



itiong the Indians of Chili, there (hould he no 

 Track, or Sign, or Foot-ftep, either of the Wor- 

 ship of a Deity, or of the Cohabitation of Men, 

 as in all other known Parts of the World but 

 that they (hould content themfelves with living 

 feparately under a fort of Hutts made of the Bran- 

 ches of Trees. 



Upon the whole matter, we have taken due 

 Care to have a juft Tranflation of this llfeful 

 Work : And left any Blunder might be made in 

 copying Monfieur Freziers Plans, q^c. ( which too 

 commonly happens in Affairs of this nature ) we 

 ha^e at a confiderable Expence procured a Num- 

 ber of Cutts printed from the Original Plates at 

 Paris, by that Author's Permiflion ; the French 

 Explanations whereof being render d into Englijk, 

 and inferted at the Foot of their proper Pages, the 

 Reader will at the fame time underftand them 

 with Eafe, and have the Satisfaction that the Plates, 

 are true and genuine. 



One Obje&ion doth indeed lie againft Monfieur 

 Frezier, arifing perhaps from his Ambition to be 

 thought to correct the General Sea-Chart of our 

 Country-man Dr. HaBey, Savilian Profeflbr of Geo- 

 metry in the llniverfity of Oxford ; but befides 

 that the Reputation of this Chart is eftablifh'd by 

 the Experience of our Navigators in moft Voyages, 

 beyond the Power of Monfieur Frezier to hurt it ; 

 we muft remember that our Author is a French* 



man : 



