The Reader mvst vnderstand, that I wrote the two first bookes in Latine, when I was at Pern, and therefore they speake of matters of the Indies, as of things present: Being since returned into Spaine, I thought good to translate them into our vulgar tongue, and not to change my former maner of speeach. But in the five following bookes, for that I made them in Europe, I have beene forced to change my stile, and therein to treate of matters of the Indies, as of Countries and things absent. And for that this diversitie of speech might with reason offend the Reader, I have thought good to advertise him thereof.