Transcriber’s Note:

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.

A link to the audio file was added for music. The music file is the music transcriber's interpretation of the printed notation and is placed in the public domain. At the time of this writing, music file links will not work in mobile e-book formats like epub or Kindle/mobi. Users who are reading the e-book in one of these formats can listen to the music or download the music file in the HTML version. Lyrics to the musical score are presented as poetry following the illustration of the music.

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.

LONDON.
PRINTED BY J. DAVIS, CHANCERY LANE:
AND SOLD BY VERNOR AND HOOD, POULTRY; AND
J. CUTHELL, HOLBORN.
M.DCCC.