Sir Hans Sloane to Mr. Ray. 271 



I haveperufed moil part of Rauwolfs Voyage 3 which 

 being only extant in High Dutch, and that underftood 

 by very few, I thought would do well in EngHJh, and 

 fo borrowed it from the Royal Society : And Capt. 

 Hatton being defirous of it likewife, we put it into 

 the Hands of Mr. Staphorft, who has done it as you 

 fee, I think pretty clear 3 tho' the making it good 

 Language, and the Notes, are left wholly to you. 

 Some Paflages are not to be well tranflated, becaufe 

 of differing Cuftoms and Proverbs 3 but I think fo 

 far as the natural Hiftory is concern'd it may be un- 

 derftood. Authors make Mention of a fourth Part 

 of this Work printed the next Year, viz. in 1^83, 

 which is very true 3 for fome of the Plants of Rau- 

 wolfe mention'd by him, and defcribed in this Jour- 

 nal, were engraven in Wood, and without any far- 

 ther Defcriptions, only References in the Margin to 

 the -Defcriptions in the Pages of the Journal, make 

 up a fourth Book, or Part 3 which, with a new Ti- 

 tle Page, was what made the fecond Edition 3 the 

 Book in Pages, without Cuts, and of the firft 

 Edition in if 82, being exa£tly the fame as with the 

 fourth Part, and Cuts, in 1 f 83 . The Compiler of 

 the Hiftoria Lugdunenfis at the latter End, in an Ap- 

 pendix, takes all thefe Cuts, bating fome few, which 

 had been graved in the Body of that Hiftory 3 and ad- 

 ding the Defcriptions out of the Journal to the Cuts, 

 makes that Appendix which we have at the latter 

 End of that Work. I think this Work a very curi • 

 ous one in feveral natural Remarks, as in the [fir al cut- 

 ting of the Poppy-heads, in making Opium, &t. I 

 have likewife iollicited hard to get one Mar t in' s^ook 

 of Greenland tranflated and printed. It was done in- 

 to order from his Mouth by Martin FogeJius of Ham- 

 burgh, and there printed 1673 in ¥°* with many 

 Cuts of Birds, Plants, &c. of thofe Parts, and is not 

 extant that I hear of in any Language but Dutch. I 

 have feen two Plants from the Cape of Good-hope - } they 



arc 



