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XXXIII. After what I have Hated I flatter myfelf my work will be deemed offome utility, notwithftanding we have already a relation of this fame voyage in fomecollections. All that has yet been known of it, however, has chiefly been taken fromthe work of Fabre, of whom I have fpoken in SeCtion XXIII. Now, Fabre has merelygiven an extract of it; for he fays himfelf, Cy jinit I’extraihl du dit livrc , tranjlate deItalien en Frangois. “ Here terminates the extract of the faid book, tranflated fromItalian into French .” I ihall, moreover, add, that the extraCt he has given is faulty ;that he has omitted many things, to fpare himfelf the trouble of tranflating them, asRamufio very juftly obferves; and that he has been guilty of many errors, which arenot in the original, as I have already noticed with refpeCt to the line of demarcation,SeCtion XIV. I could .even cite feveral others, which I difeovered in comparing theextraCt of Fabre with our manufeript. I Ihall give one fpecimen of them in copyingthe firfl; page of this extraCt.

Le Voyage et Navigatmi am IJles de Molluque, deferit et faicl de noble homme AnthoinePigaphetta, Vmcentin Ghevallier de Rhodes ; comence le didl Voyage Ian mil cinq cens dixn euf et de retour tnil CCCCCXX1I le huytiefme iour de Septembre , &c. &c.

“ The Voyage and Navigation to the Iflands of Molluque, deferibed and effected bythe noble man Anthoine Pigaphetta, Vincentin Knight of Rhodes; the faid Voyagebegins in the year one thoufand and nineteen, and [the date of the]] return [to port]]Was the 8th of September one thoufand CCCCCXXII.”

CHAPTER I. — The firjl Chapter contains the dedicatory Epiftle, and how finSeShips departed fro?n the Port of Cheyille ; — The chief Captain was Ferrant Magagli-anes ; — And of the Signals which the Navigators made by night with Fires before, forall to know what was to be done ; —And of the Order of the Ships, and of the Watchkept in them.

BY comparing this pafiage with the tranflation given by me to the public it will befeen, that Fabre relates in an unintelligible manner, and in a few lines, what Pigafetta bas diftinCtly given in a number of pages. Neverthelefs, I do not aflume that theextract is curtailed throughout as in the firfl: page, but Fabre is generally very concife,v ery obfeure, and feldom exact.

Fabre, and after him Ramufio, divided the work into a number of fmall chapters ;but as no fuch divifion appears in the work of our circumnavigator, I Ihall not in thispoint follow their example. It appears, however, that Pigafetta has feparated the partspf his voyage according to the Rations, and, after his example, I Ihall likewife partlnt o four books the tranflation of it given here, which I trull will be regarded as a^ovel, interefting, and inltrudlive work, and one reflecting honour on Italy .

VOL. XI.

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