To the highly obliging, 
His Honoured Friend and Kinsman, 
Samuel Fortrey Efq; 
SIR, 
JTT was by your ajjijlance {enabling me) that I com- 
menced a Voyage into thofe remote parts of the World 
{knotvn to us by the painful Difcovery of that memorable 
Gentleman Sir Fran. Drake.) Tour bounty then and 
formerly hath engaged a retribution of my Gratitude, 
and not knotving how to tejlifie the fame unto you other- 
wayes, I have {although with fome reluclancy) adven- 
tured to obtrude zipon you thefe rude and indigejled 
Eight Tears Obfervations, wherein whether I Jhall more 
Jliame my felf or injure your accurate fudgment and 
better Employment in the perufal, is a quejlion. 
