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'NOyjBMBER their wifhes, and got the veflel down about f ix f e e t j th ey
.th en flopped till h igh -w a te r , a n d fe n t to th e K in g , w h o with
a ll his attendants came o v e r to be prefent at the launch . - f i
A b o u t feven o’clock,' o u r people h a p p ily g o t th eir veflel
afloat, to th e general jo y o f e v e ry fpetftator, all appearing
deeply interefted in the fuccefs o f this event.— T h e EngJiJb
g a v e three loud h u z za s at h e r g o in g off* in w h ich th e y
we re joined, b y th e natives, wh ofe f r ig id ly hea rts-, fketQed
o n this' occalion to feel a fetisfatflion little inferio r jtq that
o f our ow n people, w h ich m a y he fuppofèd ty> flay«* been
g rea t indeed'.— T h e Èngîi/b ^fhook. hands .w ith eaidn other,
w ith a cordiality bu t. fd d om experienced and th e mu tu a l
lo o k o f ' congratulation, exch an g ed from eye (to . èye,", é a k *
v eyed to e&ch. other’s feçlings, w ith energ y and ardour, th ofe
fentiments o f transport w h ich words would .not with eqibal
forge. ha ve communicated. T h e long-wiflaed-faç gpqpnept
o f deliverance was now almoft arrived i every one faw again,,
in imagination, thofe o b jets o f his affection, f r om whom,
hut a few weeks paft, he th ou gh t he had been fepaxated for
•ever. A n d th e part th e inhabitants o f Peeew appeared t.o
ta k e in the comfort o f th e da y, extinguifhed fo r the prefent
every alarm that had been u n ju fljy entertained.—-Indeed the
conduit o f the latter now exhibited, in lovelièït colours., the
tr ium p h o f native benevolence.— T h e y faiw tbofe ftrangers.
•ready to. depart, from w h ofe aid they had benefited, and
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