plight enable them to examine, withrjudgmentpbjefts which,
prefentcd themftives, or trace nature through ail. her labyrinths
.TT-Diftreis threw., them, on theft iflandsn'and when
fllhiriiafillpry thought was ' fölely-ipécupiedi hn the i toeans of
-getting away, and 'liberating ft-hemftivesr .from a fituatiph
of all others the ;moit horrible’, to! - the imagination, that erf
being. cut off .for eyer;from /th^ftssfefey/pf reft/of Tift
Wprld.;
Foylopg, and " melancholy as; their lot at firft appeared^ the
^100®jit]ep^OfYer then). wasfppn dhpelled, by findjngfthpm:-
felyes amongft an hUPawe race of men* who were fuperiqr-
to. the wifli of taking any advantage of their diftrefs; who
Jhad -hea^ to feel for what ourto
reftfy^jdjeir t9 c8®"P®e"
rate with them in,. every effort, tpwork. °ut thejr dghyepaneo.
- r - Thppf l e f l ed what was in the..eftimatiot) pf the
natiYP r,Orf the higheft yaiuet^hPP tafid arms,» The Malay
^iwfeck: had» £9? ,-the firft time;, thrown in theft way S fe<W
pieces of the former j the ufe and; power, of ike Jatter had
paly been difcovered to them-by the ill fortune of pur countrymen.—
Theft: objects, fo definable to them, they might,
unqueftionabfy have pofieffed themftlves’-nf-, the number ,of
our people, capable of hearing arms,, being-only twenty-
ftven, the .Captain and -Surgeoii included ; •but. their notions
of moral rectitude lay as a barrier :againft the intrufiop of
- Pp- ; jfuch
iriniM'iiii t i f r ~i irssts?.. ..ft-- n i i i rniit i W lff '»■