The Preface. 
count, and have found fime Things 
undifcovered by any before, and 
which may at lea ft be fime Affift- 
tance and Dire<ftion to better qua- 
lified Perfons who fhall come after 
me. 
It has been Objected againft me 
by fome , that my Accounts and 
Defcriptions of Things are dry and 
jejune, not filled with variety of 
pleafant Matter, to divert and gra- 
tify the Curious Reader. How 
far this is true, 1 muft leave to the 
World to judge. But if I have 
been exactly and ftriftly careful to 
give only True Relations and De- 
scriptions of Things (as I am fure 
I have ; ) and if my Defcriptions 
be fuch as may be of ufe not only 
to my felf (which I have already 
in good meafure experienced) but 
alfo to others in future Voyages ; 
and likewife to fuch Readers at 
home as are more defirous of a 
Plain and Juft Account of the true 
Nature and State of the Things 
de- 
