150 Prof. Sehlegel on some Extinct Gigantic Birds 
could, at low water, during full and new moon, go to two neighbour¬ 
ing islets, one of which was overgrown with trees*. This banish¬ 
ment lasted more than three years, and Leguat alone was allowed, 
for the recovery of his health, to stay some time on Mauritiusf. 
Subsequently, on the 6th September, 1696, they were forwarded, 
but still as prisoners J, to Batavia, and then finally, but only a 
year later, released. Hence Leguat shipped, with his remaining 
companions, on the 28th November, 1697, for Europe §, and 
arrived in safety at Flushing on the 24th June, 16981|. Leguat 
afterwards established himself in Great Britain 5[; and in con¬ 
sequence of the approval which his journal of the voyage found 
among his friends, he worked it up into a complete narrative, 
which in this new form made the round of his acquaintances, 
and was subsequently, in 1708, printed and published at their 
request**. It is dedicated to the celebrated statesman the Earl 
Graytt> and the preface is dated London, 1st October, 1707. 
From LeguaFs work we find that he was a man of true re¬ 
finement and much reading, that he possessed to a high degree 
the earnestness and piety which characterized the fervent pro- 
testants of the time, and that, by his scientific disposition and 
imperturbable faith, as well as by his oppression and persecution 
of several kinds, together with his ripe age, he had obtained that 
unchangeable calmness of mind from which he felt so happy at 
Bodriguez that, had he not been compelled, he would have never 
left that resting-place JJ. 
As to his love of truth, w r e find the contents of his work 
corroborated by what he says in his preface—“la simple Verite 
toute nue et la Singularity de nos Avantures sont le corps et 
Fame de ma Relation ”§§. Among naturalists he has hitherto 
been known only by his account of the Solitaire of Rodriguez; 
but every one has accepted it without hesitation, and the re- 
* Op. cit. ii. p. 38. f Ibid. ii. p. 34. J Ibid. ii. p. 62. 
§ 1 bid. ii. p. 137. || Ibid. ii. p. 174. 51 Ibid. Pref. p. xxx. 
** Ibid. Pref. p. iii-v. 
ft [This is a slight and pardonable mistake of the author. The person 
to whom the volume is dedicated was Henry De Grey, Marquess of Kent, 
&c.—T ransl.] 
11 Op. cit. Pref. p. xxx. §§ Ibid. Pref. p. x. 
