INTRODUCTION. IvU 



fhould be known, before more dired routes 

 %re attempted, during the two monfoons. 

 More dired; routes are by no means new ; 

 they were purfued formerly by navigators ; 

 and a knowledge of the winds, and an in- 

 fpe£lion of the chart, will eafily enable fea- 

 men to find them out, A long difTertation, 

 therefore, would be quite foreign to the 

 fubjeQ of which I propofe to treat. It is 

 however of fome importance for elucidating 

 a digrefTion, to be found in the courfe of the 

 following work, on the utility of banifh- 

 ment, to give an account of fome ihip- 

 wrecks, which will ferve to prove, that men 

 left by accident on barren coafts or defert 

 iflands, may find, in the fifti and animals 

 which abound on the borders of the Tea, a 

 fure means of fubfiftence. 



A fliip, called the Heureux\ having on the 

 30th of Auguft' 1769, fet out from the Iflc 

 of France, in order to proceed to Bengal, 



unex- 



