l i783- \ueMe ~}bf whkhr he may die -— I have prepared 'my thoughts
" ;—/ iaw®«sSfa*/“ death r/r .-*«i d ll k inevitable^ arid:
ViwbptfierL ,fdm meet! fhd.i volmt. at Pe l e w, 9rd$Bpbsti&, is
** immaterial.— I ihm.- fatisfied, 'foam wiOtt I have Mfervedrof
^thePpptanhy-bpymr chdraBer, that ip he is pic^y&u m ill he
i l kind to-dbimy and, JhauM that happen,■ -which ;you'r' utmofi
«8 ewe cannot prevent, le t it ~mt hinder1 yon, or your brothwt,
^ or your Jon, ar -any o f ym r countrymen, ƒ * ’' j ; I
. ‘ ./hall-receive you, v r any of your people^ in friendjbip, and ?'-e~
** joice. toifee you agdin
Captain Wfi,soN'*t^eatQ<L'td|' •sdaSwaj0^'iAkt ti#.wid«H
have foe Came care far Lee Buo as for his ewa child, »“nil
that nothing fhould be wanting m his paitto teftify, inhis
attention to thefori, the gratitude and regard he fhouid e^er
feel for the father.
The thoughts of the King, as weh as thofe of ;the Cap^
takpwere too much- engaged, to devote much of foe might
to fleep.; A s b a TraLLE pafied a coniSdarafcfepart-
as did alfo the Rupachs,\in difeourfing with their young
countryman, who was now launching into a new and urn-
tried world, and on the pioint of being, feparated by an
immenfe diftance from every former conne&ion.-r-Being
fo near to their departure, Captain Wilson took this opportunity
to talk again with Blanchard, and to give
him advice how he fhouid conduit himfelf towards the
natives,
natives, arid in what, things he could be foffra&ive arid ^
bfeneficial to them; particularly in working fuch iron as
haif'bedi given' to ihfetn, and what more they might hereafter:
obtain, from the wreck; and alfo in-Taking care of
the arms and ammunition th|| had left them, which
would be of the utmofi xonfbquenee| req:ucfi;ihg he would
never go naked, like the natives^as, by preferving the- form
'of drefs his countrymen had appeared in, he would always-
fupport a- fuperiority of chara&er; and, that he might be
better enabled to follow this advice, he was furnilhed with
all- the clothes they could fpare; and directed, when thefe
were worn out, to make himfelf trowfers with a raaf, which;
he could always .procure from the natives, and thereby pre-
fefV'e that decency he had always been accuffoUiccl to.- -Mor
in the infirnftions delivered to him, were forgotten aii aiten-
tion to in.s religiojV; hh waiearheftly exhorted not to. rieglcft
thbfe; a$hbF devotion which he had been taught to pradfife;.
"lAcflh'keep a 'fMfralb of Sunday, and follow thofe Cliriftiau-
dUfiJs jii which he had been educated.^BeVw-al , X l J l
’■ firhl to afh for any1 thing that he might think would be of
ufe add comfort to him when he requefted to have .'cure of
' the foiil^qmpaiies ; and, as the pipnace Was-to be left, that
they might hive the mitts* lads, oars, and" every thing.belonging
to her; which were ail given, as food as they lnad
' towed tile vcfeldyer the reef.
Infoe mifonihg* at dayhightj/'an 'l ' * '^