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niftiment, and compelled me to condemn the temerity 

 which could a fecond time forego every earthly enjoy- 

 ment a fecond time to encounter each fpecies of hard- 

 fhip, and all the various dangers fo certainly attendant 

 upon thofe who explore new and diftant climes : a facri- 

 fice for which no reward however liberal, no praife 

 however loud, could offer any adequate recompence. 



From the performance of my laborious tafk I can claim 

 no other praife than that to which a perfeverance in what 

 was irkfome may be thought to entitle me ; though to 

 the beft of my judgment I have rendered the abridgment 

 as perfect as it could be; having been careful to infert 

 all that could intereft the general clafs of readers, and to 

 omit only fuch parts as muft, by a repetition of crimes 

 and their punifhment, with the oft-repeated regulations 

 and laws confequent thereto, become diftrefTmg or tedious. 

 Yet enough of the former ftill remains, to convince every 

 refle&ing mind of the wifdom which di&ated the re- 

 lieving their country from a fet of people fo hoftile to 

 the interefts and fafety of its more worthy inhabitants. 

 Nor can the fpecimens here given of incurable depravity 

 fail to convince the moft violent oppofers of the colo- 

 nifing fyftem of its neceffity ; or at leaft to fill them 

 with gratitude to that government which has, by remov- 

 ing fuch numbers of unprincipled people, endeavoured 

 to proteft them from depredation and violence. 



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