ABSTRACT
Thomas Herbert’s 1634 travelogue, A Relation of Some Years Travel into Afrique, Asia, Indies, declares:
This journal was taken in danger, which admits of no curiosity, and craves but the same favourable light for approbation, it was drawn by. Many storms it has endured for company, but more hot days, which have sun-burnt my lines, as well as my face. And though I am on shore, yet I fear, the sea is not yet calm, for each book, sent into the world, is like a bark put to sea, and is as liable to censures as the bark is to foul weather.
