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Among the little property which he left behind, belide
what he had particularly requeued Mr. Sh abb to epnriiy to
his father and friends, there were found, after his death, the
ftones or feeds pf moft of the fruits he had tailed in 'England,
carefully and Separately put up.-r-And when one confiders»
that hfe ftay With us was but 'five months and twelve days* we
■ find, that in the „midft of the wild field of novelty that en-
compaffed him, he had noTISeeri neglectful'' of that which,
before his departure from PeleW, hadheeh probably pointed
out to him as a principal matt® of attention.
From thefe trifling anecdotes of this amiable youth, cut
ofFin the moment that his character began to bloflom, what
hopes might not have been entertained of the future fruit
fuch a plant would have produced !— He had both ardour
and talents for improvement, and every gentle quality of the
heart to make himfelf beloved; fo that, as far as the dim
light of mortals Is permitted to penetrate, he might, had his
days been lengthened, have carried hack to his own country;
—not the vices pf a new world—but ^hoie fojid advantages
which his own good fenfe would have fuggefted, as likely to
become moll ufeful tp it.
But— how parry That event depended not on
himfelf;—a naked, confiding ftranger—he trufted implicitly
fo others, and left the, protecting arrnis of a father without
apprehenfion—without ftipulation.—The evening before the
Orqolong faded, the King afked Captain Wilson, how
f long
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long it might he before his return t© Pele-w ? éfed being
told, that it would probably be about thirty moonS, or Migh
chance to extend fo fix more, Abba T hulle drew from his
bafket apiece of Line, arid, after making thirty kftètson it,
a little diftan.ee from each ether,left a long fpace, and then
adding fix others, carefully put it by.
As the flow but fure :ftëps‘è f Time riavb1 beenmoving
onward,, the Reader’s imagination Will figure the anxious
parent, reforting to thiS cherifhed remembrancer^ arid with
joy untying the earlier records of each elapfing peririd ;^-
as he fees him advancing on Ms Une^ he. will coricervO th
joy redoubled 5—and, when nearly approaching to the;£fo>-
tieth knot, almofl accufing the planet of the night for paffing
f© tardily away.
When verlag towards the termination: ef his latefi fedk-
oning, he WÜ then picture his mifldgskjwing WiS* parental
affeCtion, ©ccafionally alarmed by doubt—yet ftill buoyed up
by hope;— he will fancy him pacing iriqriafitively1 thefea-
fhore, and often commanding his people 4© s afcend evériy
rocky height, and glance their eyes along the level line'of
the horizon which hounds thé furrounding ocean, to fee if
haply it might not in fome part be broken by the diflant
appearance of a returning fail.
Laftly, he willview thegood Abba TAullè, Wearied out
by that expectation, which fo many returning moóns fines
his reckoning ceafed, havé by this time taught him he had
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