NOVEMBER.
rence.-eHe bad already,, .as' will be recollected»’ hinted an
intention of fending two o f his people to E n g lan d , whenever
th© veffel was ready to depart f and, this .evening,. after
fupper, reverting to what-he had formerly mentioned, he
explained himfelf more fully on the fubjedt; he told the
Captain, that thouglrhis fubjeCts looked up to him with re-
fpeft, and regarded him as,pot only fuperior in rank but in
knowledge, yet, that after being with the EngliJJj, and contemplating
their ingenuity, he had often felt his own iniig-
mficance, m feeing the loweft man, whosa the Captnmha,d
tinder his command, exercife talents that he had eygr been
a fe-anger to; he had therefore refolved to intruft h i s ^ c
eond fon, whofe name was L ee Boo, to Captain W ilson 's,
care, that he might have the advantage of improving himfelf
by accompanying the Engli/b, and of learning many
thipgs, that might at his return greatly benefit his own,
country.— He added, that one o f the Malays from Pelelew
fhould alfo go to attend on him.— He defcribed his fon as a
young man o f an amiable and gentle difpofition; that he
was fenfible, and o f a mild temper, and fpoke much in his
commendation; faid he had Pent for him from a diftant place,
where he had been under the care o f an old man ; that he
was then at Pelew, taking leave o f his friends, and would
be with him at Oroolong the next morning; Ra a K ook
alfo joined, with his brother A rra K ooker, in giving the
fame good character o f their nephew.
Captain
Captain W ilson replied, that he was. exceedingly obliged
and honored by; ?h*^ togitlar mark
•efteem jjthat he „
titude to take care o f any perfon belonging, to Pelew, whom
the King might fend; but in this .-cafe, he wilhed to affure
him, that he Ihould endeavourto'merit the high trull repofed
in him, by treating the y oung prince with the|pne tenderneis
an.d affeCtion as. hi:s own fon.— This anfwepgav
fefcjpfjH afld then the
fed a with thahtffe veffel nffght gp
departure; thereafon,h,e.affigRpdjfq^i^akin^^liis reqpejj^ s
Was* that many ©f fhepnen had -enjpyp^ yarjoiiS: ppportiinf-
at QftPiQtiQNGjof feeing, thp
hut that this had not been § 3 ^ .
an d tb e e h i¥ m .i that, i f they went down1 to Pelew, t| e | i
latter wonld then have the pff^fure o f gratifying
ofity;. that-the mothers would sJjere&fter talk p y e r^ t^ e ir
children and families,the fiqgtdarityipf the
circum-ftanoe to their p^ernories, and by^thffsi^e^^he narne
o f the Engji/b, and o f then building fuclr a veffel on the
iiland of O r o o l o n g , would be prefefved by his people,
which was what he much wilhed.— Captain W ilson*,who
well knew the difpofition of his own people, and was-in
his mind fully perfuaded that their former fufpicions would
revive, atid induce them to doubt whether fqme treachery
, K i was.