A Iff A G G O U N T O F
*#3- ■'
NOVEMBER.
fubfeqneht fortune of a man voluntarily cutting' himfelf <5ff
from the reft nf the worlds—dubious as the'event maybe,
whether this knowledge may hereafter ever reach ouy e&rsv
It is by no means improbable, if he has conducted himfel^
web, that by this time lie may have become a character of
confiderable confequence: courage he pofiefled in an eminent
degree, a virtue held in high eftimation by the natives.
Unfortunately,: his fituation in life having denied him any
advantageof education, he was-unable either to write or read,
otherwife his memoirs, fince the year 1^83, well,-digefted,
might, to all the inveftigatorsof limple nature, be infinitely
more interefting than thofe of half the minifters apd
men of Eu ro p e , who have only bequeathed to ^ppfterity a
remembrance of all thofe dark counfels, lepret devices,, and
profligate intrigues, which difturbed the tranquillity, q£ the
age they lived in.
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> C H A P T E R XIX. , I I • NOVMEMHBERB*.
fthe V l f f e l T i h e g if at-SauimSKm ex-
" ‘prejjed by‘the Natives on the Occafon.— Our fk fie fgw e the
■ Kittg the Remainder o jth e Tools'.— Captain wfEsoN fe h t'
h 'for % lt$e King'fo
him a Rupack of Welfirfi Rank.—Iniiejls him with We h^fW
Order o f the Bon E.—A ISefcripiim 'ofWeCeremony.
tHE night.'proving fine, every hand had fufhcient em- Sunday 9,
ploynient in preparing things for launching the vef-
felj-thfey fwept her with a lower-fliroud naffer, ’ahd_ car-' >
lied out an anchor- and hawler a-head, and got a'runner,
and tackle purchafe upon i t ; they fikewife 'got a poft with ,
wedges fet agaihft the ftern-poft, arid fy erf thing .,real.y||^|||ji
fore day-fight. The tic^ebbed ext^ordinarfdowthisv night,
infomttch that fifih'e of our people walked dry to theiflpWerpft!
pot ifland, which had never been ctjDne at arifiqffier time before
fince their coming to this place it’was idw-wkter’rather
before two o’clock this morning. At 'day-ffight ‘m^nAga|i'
to try their work, to fee if tiiefr preparations wnuld. anfw’er i
1 their