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GENERAL COLLECTION

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VOYAGES AND TRAVELS

IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD;

MANY OF WHICH ARE NOW FIRST TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH.

BY JOHN PINKERTON,

"AUTHOR OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY, &c. &c.

ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES.

VOLUME THE SECOND.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME, PATERNOSTER-ROW;

AND CADELL AND DAVIES, IN THE STRAND.

1808.

Strahan and Prefton, Printers-Street, London.

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GENERAL COLLECTION

OF

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.

THE VOYAGE OF DON MANOEL GONZALES, (LATE MERCHANT) OF THE
CITY OF LISBON IN PORTUGAL, TO GREAT BRITAIN: CONTAINING AN
HISTORICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, TOPOGRAPHICAL, POLITICAL, AND EC-
CLESIASTICAL ACCOUNT OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND; WITH A CU-
RIOUS COLLECTION OF THINGS PARTICULARLY RARE, BOTH IN NATURE
AND ANTIQUITY.

TRANSLATED FROM THE PORTUGUESE MANUSCRIPT.
(From the Harleian Collection, Vol. I. p. 9.)

CHAPTER I.-Containing the Reasons of the Author's Voyage to England, &c. IN my infancy, my parents, being on both fides defcended from new Christians, to

appear more devout and attached to the established church, and fo the better to screen themselves from the eye of the Portugueze inquifition, put me on the habit of a jefuit, and determined to breed me a scholar at least, if not a father of that fociety. In confequence of this refolution, I, as foon as age would permit, was fent to their public fchool of St. Antoaon, or St. Anthony the Great, at Lifbon, where not only languages, but all the liberal sciences are taught; and in a few years was to determine, whether I would enter into the fociety, or fucceed to my father's business of a merchant, who then was declining, both with age and infirmities of body. My tutor laid close fiege to my affections, well knowing that, as then I was the only furviving child of my parents, all their fubftance (and they were accounted rich) would center with me in their fociety for ever, could Ì be perfuaded to become a jefuit: to whom I had almost yielded; till my mother interpofing, with folid reafons convinced me, that for the prefent it would be better, both for her and myself, to enter into partnership with my father, alledging that I was not yet fo capable to judge how an ecclefiaftical life, under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, might confift with my growing inclinations and propenfity of nature; that as the whole paternal estate would be feized on for their own ufe, upon my father's death, she must be ruined, or become obfequious

VOL. II.

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