[1] This unhappy gentleman subsequently lost his life by falling into a
boiling spring in the island of Batavia! He was probably the greatest
traveller that ever lived; having, so far as the writer can learn,
visited every country in Europe, Persia, Palestine, Egypt, and all
northern Africa; nearly, if not every country in America, and most of
the East! By adding New Holland and the islands, he would have seen the
world. Would he have been any happier for all his toils and dangers? It
may be doubted.