T'he Preface. 
prefenting to the Eye the whole 
Thread of the Voyage at one 
View ; befides Draughts, and Fi- 
gures of particular Places, to make 
the Defcriptions I have given of 
them more intelligible and ufe- 
ful. 
Moreover, which I had not the 
opportunity of doing in my for- 
mer Voyages; having now had 
in the Ship with me a Perfon 
skill’d in Drawing, I have by this 
means been enabled, for the great- 
er Satisfaction of the Curious Rea- 
der, to prefent him with exaCt 
Cuts and Figures of feveral of the 
principal and moft remarkable of 
thofe Birds , Beafts , Fidies and 
Plants, which are defcribed in the 
following Narrative ; and alfo of 
feveral , which not being able to 
give any better or fo good an Ac- 
count of, as by caufing them to be 
exactly Ingraven, the Reader will 
not find any further Defcription 
of them, but only that they were 
found 
