1801. ] 
and by preferving valuable Lives, to aug- 
ment the opulence of the nation! Surely if 
any have a legal and peculiar demand on 
the fympathy of mankind, it mutt be 
thofe, who, foregoing fcenes of domeftic 
blifs and focial endearment, brave the pe- 
rils of the winds and waves, and, by fo 
doing, enlarge the ftores of national wealth 
and individual comfort. Your’s, 
Joun Bur_Ler. 
Hacknej. 
a 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
account of the late LITERARY, FOR- 
GERY iz GERMANY of DAMBERGER’S 
TRAVELS IN AFRICA, Gc, and of two 
other BOOKS of TRAVELS. 
HAT in the fhort fpace of three 
years, three forged books of travels 
fhould have been publifhed by three re- 
fpectable bookfellers in Leipzig, may be 
adduced as a proof, that in Germany the 
ympudence of book-makers knows no 
bounds ; and the circumftance proves how 
eafily the credulity of the reading public 
may be impofed upon : 
1. Cur, Fr. DAMBERGER’S Landreife in 
das Innere von Africa, &c. or ‘* Travels in 
the Interior of Africa, from the Cape of 
Good Hope, through Caffraria, &c. to Maroc 
co; inthe Years 1731—1797, 2 vols. with a 
Map of Africa, 2 coloured plates, Leipzig, 
publithed by Martini.” 
2. Befchreibung einiger See- und Landreifen, 
Sc. or, “* Account of fome Voyages, &c, to 
Afia, Africa, and America, particularly from 
Holland and England to Batavia, Madras, 
Bengal, Japan and China; and alfo from thie 
Cape of Good Hope, through Cattreria and 
Defart of Sahara, to Egypt, by Zacharias 
Faurinius, a native of Egypt.” 2 vol. 350 
pages. large $vo. publifhed by Jacobaer in 
Leipzig. 
And 3. Sce- und Landreife nach Oftindien.—- 
**€ Voyage to the Eaft Indies and Egypt, and 
a Journey to Mounts Sinai and Horeb, to 
Gaza, Rama, Damafcus, Sidon, Tyre, 
erufalem, Bethlehem, the Dead Sea, &c. 
in the Years 1795-1799, by Fo/eph Schrod- 
ter; 35% pages, {mall 8vo. publithed by 
Wolf and Co. 
It is now no longer a matter of doubt, 
that Damberger, Taurinius, and Schrodter, 
are one and the fame perfon, and that the 
above-mentioned accounts of travels, &c. 
are the production of one and the fame 
impoftor. When the report of the {pu- 
rioufnets of thefe works had become ge- 
nerally current, the publifhers compared 
the manufcript letters which they had re- 
ceived from the pretended authors, and, to 
their no {mall aftonifhment, immediately 
perceived that they were written by the 
Literary Forgeries in Germany. 
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fame hand. They therefore fent for 
Damberger, who now owned, that his 
real name'was not Damberger, but Tau- 
rinius; but perfifted in afferting, that he 
had actually performed the journey through 
Africa; and had adopted the former 
name from one of his fellow-travellers, for 
the purpofe of being fooner able to com. 
municate to the public the Travels an- 
nounced in Taurinius’s Voyage, &c. But 
how happens it then, that in Damberger’s 
Travels he defcribes a journey through 
Africa to Morocco, although in Tauri- 
nius’s Voyage he promiles the account of a 
journey from the Cape of Good Hope to 
Egypt ?—On reading thefe three books of 
' Travels, one muft own, that- with refpect 
to the fiyle, the tone, and manner of the | 
narrative, and the truth of the faéts related, 
thefe three productions are as like as one 
eee is to the other.—But were the journies 
defcribed in thefe books actually perform- 
ed by the authors of them?—No! For 
if we deduct the fabulous tales, wonderful 
occurrences, and blunders againft hiftory 
which have been interwoven with the nar- 
rative, we may at every feétion refer to 
the fources whence the contents were de- 
rived. Schrodter’s obfervations relative 
to Egypt are taken from Wanfleben’s 
Travels, from Bruns’ and Hartmann’s 
Geographies of Egypt, and others; and 
his accounts of Syria from Korte’s Jour- 
ney to the Holy Land, from Schulz’s Gui- 
dance of the Moft High, according to his 
Counfel, during Travels in Europe, Afia, 
and Africa, from Mariti, &c.;—and Dam- 
berger’s Narrative from Ehrmann’s Hifto- 
ry of the moft remarkable Travels in 
Africa, from Bruns’ Syitem of the Geo- - 
graphy of Africa, vol. 1—6, from Le 
Vaillant, Kolbe, Menzel, and others ;— 
and the materials of Taurinius’s Voyage, 
&c. from Chardin, Kampfer,, Tachart, 
Thevenot, Dampier, Gentil, De Briiyn, 
Franklin, and others. Damberger-Tau- 
rinius-Schrodter’s Travels, then, do not 
contain obfervations made by the authors 
of them in the countries through which 
they pretend to have paffed ; but are com- 
piled, in many places even werbatim, from 
the above-cited fources. Now it appears 
that Damberger is not even able to exprefs 
his ideas in.a conneéted manner, and it is 
therefore conjectured, that the above three 
works were written by a certain Matter of 
ArtsinWittenberg, of thename of Junge; 
-andthat the fhoemakerSchiddter,the printer 
Taurinius, and the joiner Damberger, had 
no concern in them, except as brokers to 
difpofe of the {purious wares.—Several 
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