Transcriber’s Note: Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, _like this_. Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the book. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, or partially printed letters and punctuation, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Duplicate or missing letters at line endings were removed or added, as appropriate. Words have inconsistent spelling, hyphenation, and use of diacriticals. These were not changed unless indicated below. Dialect, obsolete and alternative spellings were not changed. Long dashes were converted to elipses in Book 2, chapter 7. The following were changed: “1738” to “1778” ... a second time in 1778.... “emploped” to “employed” “merchanchise” to “merchandise” “ex-jesuist” to “ex-jesuit” “contorsions” to contortions “obstables” to obstacles Pius “XVI” changed to Pius “VI” “too” to “two” ... two days in arrest ... “to” to “too” ... or see too clearly ... “consideraby” to “considerably” ... are considerably changed ... “di” to “die” ... die Zigeuner ... “engaving” to “engraving” ... an engraving of which ... “apparations” to “apparitions” ... In these apparitions ... “concentred” to “concentrated” “Phenicians” to “Phoenicians” “too” to “two” .. yields two crops every year ... “tranformed” to “transformed” ... transformed himself ... A VOYAGE TO THE _EAST INDIES:_ CONTAINING An Account of the Manners, Customs, &c. of the NATIVES, With a Geographical Description of the Country. COLLECTED FROM Observations made during a Residence of Thirteen Years, between 1776 and 1789, in Districts little frequented by the EUROPEANS. BY FRA PAOLINO DA SAN BARTOLOMEO, Member of the Academy of Velitri, and formerly Professor of the Oriental Languages in the Propaganda at Rome. WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY _JOHN REINHOLD FORSTER, LL.D._ Professor of Natural History in the University of Halle. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY WILLIAM JOHNSTON. LONDON. PRINTED BY J. DAVIS, CHANCERY LANE: AND SOLD BY VERNOR AND HOOD, POULTRY; AND J. CUTHELL, HOLBORN. M.DCCC. PREFACE.