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niight have been enabled to offer the public a more finifhed
picture of him. ■
- In the flight acquai&tance made with him at Macao and
Canton, he hath, t trutf," intereftecF the reader by that ingenuous
operinefs,Which was the refult of native fimplicity;
he is there feen/ in the charaSer of a néw-born creature,,
juft entering a world he was quitea ftranger to,,,.darting his
bewildered eye‘s on every fide, and folicited by fuch' a variety
of novelty, that he knew not wberé to fix lais* atten-
tion. However beautiful, however ftupendous the objéïts
may be which furróuhd us, when they have been within
our view through all the progreffive advance of early 'years)
they mfenfibly ceafe to engage our notice.— The pêafant,
bted at the foot of JEtna, or the Andes/ fees with indiffer-
e.nCe wond^rfuI operations of Nature,' ^M^'ledü'ce
fo> frequently from d&ant cohntrfés fhe^ inqUifitiVe fiaveÏÏer..
^ e e a f e M f E Boo was dire&ly othe^fibS^ f f'may be
M kjjm f i g expreffion,' he was born at the ltate of manhood,
yvith his mind in full vigour, and inftantly found himfelf eri-
compafled by fceiies not only totally new, but totally beyond
his conceptions—fferies which to him were fo bordering,
t^L"at were Sufficient to have h alf ove*.
fet the inexperienced faculties“ o f our young traveler, had
he not conftantly had his Me n to r at his elbow to clear up
all his difficulties, point' his judgment properly, and g iv e
him
t H‘ê p e x é w [ p B i fflmm&; ■ Æ
hïm 'a j whâtéVeï^ bëfcaâllte aii'-objedt of his
-fbrprize". -
I We left îthëHitStêgifeheiîyï'. i'S^heXeadei?. aol
hoard the Mov^'-Ifidiardan, pnlrfutfe^-<'theiri piffaigeitè %tr-
Rop-f **he was ycated withiJmudi\kindttelSc-an(l».alÆei*io)iii joy?
the-Cbnimander, Ciptaliü wE-it Was?. fix,
jfléàfafffiduririg*the%liole‘ ybyâg#’that every
one was ready'to redder MrnS âriydeîvdtèe ih èteeâëpower. |g|
; Hè wks extVemeIy'vdeffibüè*’ôf#Inow2fegithidthâme,,'aifcl»'
Country of'every fliip he met at fea, andi-wsultbrc^catiw-hae
hè was'told overhand'ovër till ffie/jh&d fe s sâ t weffiïïrihis
ffieffibfy;/aird,' hs 'each inqüfiry^wàs’ ?gïurified,y he..-madeï?a
knot on ‘his Line ; hut thefe knots now having greatly-muiw
tiffed,r-hefwas>obIigèd td repeat them^oVér-.everyldaytdre-
frefh his memory,'and often to reCur th-Captain -W
brothers,' wHeihhei had format what any- particular tenfatifee-
férred to. ' The Officers in the Mors'e^ with whom aidy-he.'
affoeiked, when‘they faw him'thùê' buffed with hisÆwî*,
dÉà'td Hè fre'qpenriywffifed
after alï tbè people of the GRôïkôftd, who hadgD«|ârî^rdB:
différent fhips at CHINA, particularly'after theXâptam^foa,
and Mr. SHARP«
• , He had riot been long on the;vôyage before, he fèho%d
Capiàîri WiLSibN to get him a'boôk* anÆpoi^p^îtoMm,’
the lettèr^that he might, when he knëwt'hertbf^îpftruéled
in reading ; all convenient opportunities Were -allot tejXfo
gratify.
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