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 I cannot describe, my mortification at being here obliged to acquaint my readers that the printer has this moment returned to me all the remaining part of my narrative, immediately following what is above printed, being about four hundred pages in my closest manner of writing, saying it was so obliterated by the sea-water in my shipwreck homewards, as not to be at all legible. I must now therefore abruptly, and most unwillingly, close my publication, at least for the present; earnestly entreating the indulgence of the public to refer to the Postscript for a fuller explanation of my situation, and of the extreme difficulty I cannot but feel in submitting to them what is now published in so unsatisfactory and mutilated a state.