Imposture; or some, who affect to be more sharp-sighted, will suspect
that under fictitious Names, I have represented Persons for whom my
Heart is filled with the most respectful Sentiments. Let this suffice,
as the shorter a _Preface_ is the better it is liked._




THE AMOURS OF _ZEOKINIZUL_,

King of the Kofirans.


After all the Labours and Attention of our best Academicians to form
just Plans, and draw complete Maps of the whole Terraqueous Globe, there
are many large Empires and powerful Nations, which their Enquiries have
not reached; so that they are not only ignorant of their Position, but
even of their Existence. Of this Number are the vast Dominions of the
King of the _Kofirans_, of which hitherto we have had not the least
Idea; and which probably would ever have continued unknown to us had not
an _Arabic_ Manuscript of the famous Traveller _Krinelbol_ luckily
fallen into my Hands.

This illustrious Enquirer, of whom we have several Works, which
ostentatious Translators, on Account of their Excellency, have published
as their own, that he might not be misled by the various geographical
Descriptions of the Globe, determined to ground his Knowledge upon his
own Experience. With this rational View he left _Arabia Felix_, his
native Country, and travelled all over both _Asia_ and _Africa_. Always
careful to take an accurate View of every Thing which was worth being