on this matter have been suppressed by his Editors,'" 

 he. Finally, the Reviewer concludes his remarks 

 on the doubling of Cape Horn, by suggesting, that 

 the motive for all this " blustering" about the dan- 

 gers of the passage, was, that it might be made to 

 appear the Essex was crippled in the voyage, and 

 the reader be thus prepared for her capture, by 

 an inferior force !" The author makes no reply to 

 this : he has never, on any occasion, urged any ex- 

 cuse for the loss of his ship, nor is it probable he 

 ever will. 



The next curious display of ignorance in tiie 

 Reviewer will be found in the following passage • 

 " The defect in their teeth," says the critic, is as- 

 cribed by him to the inordinate use of matte, a de- 

 coction of the herb of Paraguay, (what the herb of 

 Paraguay is, European botanists have not yet as- 

 certained,) sweetened with sugar, and taken with- 

 out much regard to delicacy." The author regrets 

 the ignorance of European botanists, and, for their 

 information, begs leave to refer them to the follow- 

 ing authorities : 



Their annual revenues, (the Missionary Je- 

 suits of Paraguay,) consisted in cotton, tallow, 

 leather, honey, and above all, in matte ; a plant better 

 known by the name of Paraguay tea, or South Sea 

 tea, of which that company had the exclusive com- 

 merce ; and of which, likewise, the consumption is 

 inmiense in the Spanish possessions in America, 

 where it is used instead of tea." Bougainville, 

 p. 103. 



" Another conimon liquor in this country, is the 

 matte, which answers to tea in the East Indies, 

 though the method of preparing it is something dif- 

 ferent. Jt is made from an herb ivhich in all thest) 

 parts of Amerim is hnmim by the name of Paraguay^ 



