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 Quiet, if Fortune has not some unforeseen Trouble in Store for me.

Thus in the Space of two Years, three Months, twenty one Days, I view'd a great Part both of the Earth and Moon: There are few, I believe, would run the Risque that I did, though they may be desirous of feeing what I saw; for a Whirlwind is not the easiest Vehicle; and being blow'd up, it but little better. If I have said any Thing to displease the Ladies, let them go on to drink Tea, and kill themselves out of Spight: If the Beaux are angry, I care not; and the Criticks may go hang themselves, e're they shall vex me: Besides, let them all consider, that what is here spoken is to the Inhabitants of the Moon. Well-meaning Persons I esteem, and to their Censure I wholly submit, who, I am persuaded, will not expect the greatest Exactness, and much Rhetorick, from a Sailor, studious to deliver the Truth.