Besides these, a thousand little knacks, and rarities in nature Īnd some of art, as their baskets, weapons, aprons, &c. Me, and I gave 'em to the King's Theatre, and it was the dress of the Indian Queen, infinitely admir'd by persons of quality and Little short habits of 'em, and glorious wreaths for their heads, necks, armsĪnd legs, whose tinctures are unconceivable. Then we trade for feathers, which they order into all shapes, make themselves My fist, some less and all of various excellencies, such as art cannot imitate. One that may be seen at his Majesty's antiquary's where are also some rareįlies, of amazing forms and colours, presented to 'em by my self some as big as Snakes, of which there are some threescore yards in length as is the skin of Wonderful and surprizing forms, shapes, and colours. Paraketoes, great parrots, muckaws, and a thousand other birds and beasts of Parts like that noble beast, that it is it in minature. The form and fashion of a lion, as big as a kitten, but so exactly made in all Having face and hands like a human creature and cousheries, a little beast in Monkey, as big as a rat or weasel, but of a marvellous and delicate shape, The brotherly and friendly affection in the world trading with them for theirįish, venison, buffalo's skins, and little rarities as marmosets, a sort of Manner of bringing them to these new colonies those they make use of there, notīeing natives of the place: for those we live with in perfectĪmity, without daring to command 'em but, on the contrary, caress 'em with all The scene of the last part of his adventures lies in a colony in America, called Surinam, in the West-Indies.īut before I give you the story of this gallant slave, 'tis fit I tell you the Perfectly charm'd with the character of this great man, were curious to gather Where he finds diversions for every minute, new and strange.

Of his life, which, however pleasant to us, where history was scarce, andĪdventures very rare, yet might prove tedious and heavy to my reader, in a world Youth: And though I shall omit, for brevity's sake, a thousand little accidents In this history, the hero himself, who gave us the whole transactions of his

I was myself an eye-witness to a great part of what you will find here set down Īnd what I cou'd not be witness of, I receiv'd from the mouth of the chief actor Render it diverting, without the addition of invention. Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feign'd hero, whose life andįortunes fancy may manage at the poet's pleasure nor in relating the truth,ĭesign to adorn it with any accidents, but such as arrived in earnest to him:Īnd it shall come simply into the world, recommended by its own proper merits,Īnd natural intrigues there being enough of reality to support it, and to I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this royal Oroonoko: or The History of the Royal Slave

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