Though the accounts I had previoufLy received o f this
A€w man (as lie Was ■ called '•at"Mac ao) had greatly railed
- fey expedtatiqnsj yet when. I had been, a little time in his
company, I was perfectly affcnifhed at the eafe and gentle-
nefs ©f his manners; he was lively and pleafant* and had
a“ politeneis without forin^or refoair^* which appeared to
he the refult of natural .good-breeding.— As I chanced to
fit near him at table, I paid him a great deal' of attention*,
which he fcemed to be very fenfihle of.— Many queftions
Were of courfe pht to Captain Wilson by the , company*
concerning this perfonage* and the country he had brought
him from, which no European had ever vifited before ; he
obligingly entered on many particular circumftances which
were highly inferefting, fpoke o f the battles in which his
people had affifted the King o f Pelew, and o f the peculiar
manner the natives had o f tying up their hair whep.gping
to war; L ee BOo, who fully underftood what his friend
was explaining, very obligingly, and unafked, untied his
own, and threw it into the form Captain W ilson had been
defcribing.-—I might tire the reader were I to enumerate
the trivial occurrences o f a few hours, rendered only o f con-
fequence from the Angularity o f this young mail’s fituatioii;
fuffice it to fay, there was in all -his deportment fuch affability
and propriety o f behaviour, that when he took leave
o f the company, there was hardly any one prefent who
did not feel a fatisfaction in having had an interview With
him.
I went
I went to Rotherhïthe, a few days after, to fee Captain
W ilson ; L ee Boo was reading at a window, he recollected
me" inftantly, and flew with eagernefs to the door- to meet
me, looked on me as a friend, and ever after attached himr
felf to me, appearing toi be: happy whenever we - met, tqger
iher.— In this-vifit I had atgood jdeaLof ^èQnverfatiptïifwit^.
him, and we mutually managed to be prétty well underftood
by, each other; he feemed to be pleafed with, .every thing
about him, faid, A ll fin e country, fin e fireefi: fin e M ficfi and
Poufe upon boufe up to Jky, putting alternately one hand above
another, by which I found (their own habitations ,beimg-vafl
on the ground) that every feparate füory o f our buildings he
at that time eonfidercd as a diftinift houfe. u
I-Ie was introduced -to feveral o f the Dirqftors o f thelNDiA
C ompany, taken to vifit many o f the Captain’s friends;, and
gradually fhewn moft o f the public buildings in the different
quarter^- Of the town ; but his prudent condpiifeiwhad; the
caution1 to avoid taking him, to any-places o f public entertainment,
left he might accidentally,:in thofe heated reforts,
catch the fmall-pox, a difeafe-which he purpofed to inoculate
the young Prince With, as foon as he had",acquired
ehou'gh" o f our language to be reafoned into the. neceflity o f
fu omitting to the operation ; judging, and furely: hot. without
good reafon, th at' by giving him f a offenfiveand ,trou-
•bleföm# a $iftemper,!• w i t h o u t explainingrits -matiiijjg,
and pfeparihg dÉs 'miridi*to ^&öSdqtöl- it,wit -»might weaken
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