Note 98 — INLEIDING.
Reading edition
“When this account was printed in Holland, the eight men mention’d at the end of this Journal, were all in Holland, and examin’d by several persons of reputation, concerning the particulars here deliver’d, and they all agreed in them; which seems to render the relation sufficiently authentick... There’s nothing in it that carries the face of a fable, invented by a traveller to impose upon the believing world” (Churchill’s Collection of Voyages IV (1732), Preface bl. 574).