Note 498 — Chapter III · (continued 2)

[This is probably the manuscript sold at an auction sale in New York (Bangs, Feb. 27, 1854, Catal., no. 1,330). In an introduction, Wraxall gives an account of his office and its difficulties. He says the originals were somewhat irregularly arranged in four folio volumes, and in part in Dutch, “of which I was my own translator.”—Ed.]