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will recommend his Book, and the more eſpecially when it is publiſh'd entirely for his Support, and not with the View of excelling other Hiſtorians.—However, the Reader ſhall not be wearied (as is commonly the Caſe in Voyages) with a tedious Diary of Trifles, ſuch as the Changing of the Wind from one Point of the Compaſs to another, &c. but Occurrences ſhall be told candidly; and the Reader may depend on meeting nothing here of the extravagant Liberties (but Truth) uſually taken by Travellers.THE