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the people who carried them should inform the king, that Lee
Boo would soon send him other presents. He moreover added,
that if the people faithfully executed this charge, on their retarn
he would present them with one or two beads, as a reward for
their fidelity, besides what Abba Thulle should think proper
to present to them. How enviable is this Gtate of innocent
simplicity, when happiness can be purchased on such easy
terms!— while, in fashionable life, the most extensive fortune
is often accompanied with misery and discontent.
Captain Wilson, while he remained at Macao, received letters
from the supercargoes at Canton, expressing their concern for
the loss of the Antelope, and the misfortunes of the crew;
advising that the Oroolong and stores might be disposed of.
These letters were also accompanied with others to Mr. M ‘Intyre,
desiring him to furnish tile captain and crew with money and
other necessaries; and a quantity of warm clothes were also
sent them at the same time. IK tc Lc Boo had frequent oppor­
tunities of seeing people of different n at ion s} and from various
parts of the earth ; but he preferred three English women, who
were waiting here for a passage to Europe, to any of the ladies
he had sepn. At Pelew, as before mentioned, there is no four-
footed animal whatever, except a kind of wild ra t; and Sailor,
the large Newfoundland dyg that the captain presented to Arra
Kooker, was the only animal of that kind that Le Boo had
ever seen. The sheep, goats, and other cattlc, that he saw at
Macao, were therefore novelties to him, and much excited his
attention. Sailor being the name of the dog he had seen, he
applied it to all other four-footed animals; so that, seeing some
horse3, he called them Clow Sailor, that is, Great Sailor. And
on seeing a man on horseback, for the first time, he was so
wonderfully astonished, that he requested every one of the
company present to go out and see the strange sight. After