Travelling ought also to teach him distrust; but at the same time he will discover, how many trully goodnatured people there are.

The natural history of this archipelago is very remarkable; it seems to be a little world within itself.

The children of the Indians are saved, to be sold or given away as servants, or rather slaves, for as long a time as the owners can deceive them; but I believe in this respect there is little to complain of.

All that at present can be said with certainty, is that, as with the individual, so with the species, the hour of life has run its course, ans is spent.