History of a Voyage to the Falkland Islands

one then becomes accustomed to seeing it where it is not, and sometimes to inventing it.

A Traveler also believes himself obliged to adopt the prejudices of his Nation: if it is at war with maritime Powers, he will speak of their colonies only with the gall of hatred; his partiality will pierce through even in the idea he gives of various governments. A Dane will speak of a foreign King as a demigod; to an Englishman, he will hardly be a man.

There are also personal prejudices belonging to Travelers, of which one must be wary: such is the enthusiasm for certain talents, which leads respectable Writers to relate everything to this idol of their imagination; the Merchant The author is criticizing writers who view the world only through the narrow lens of their own profession. is too apparent

in Paul Lucas Paul Lucas (1664–1737) was a French merchant and naturalist who traveled extensively in the Ottoman Empire.; one recognizes the Antiquarian too much in Spon Jacob Spon (1647–1685), a pioneer of archaeology., and the Naturalist in Tournefort Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656–1708), a famous French botanist..

It would be desirable if all Travelers resembled Dom Pernety Antoine-Joseph Pernety (1716–1796), the author of this work and a Benedictine monk who accompanied Bougainville.; that they adopted, like him, no prejudice; that they saw objects clearly, in order to make them clearly seen, and above all that they wrote with that tone of candor and truth which announces the confidence of the Writer, and which inspires it in his Readers.

Of the first discoveries of the Malouines Islands. The Malouines are known in English as the Falkland Islands.

The entire region between the Magellanic coast The southern tip of South America, named after Magellan. and the prime meridian was poorly known until the end of the last century; Magellan, who