Feb. 

 1826. 



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C \ui' snowe d him to be sincere : and as he was going 

 away, he expressed his sorrow that the ship would 

 not remain long enough off the island for him to 

 send some little token of his gratitude. These feel- 

 ings, so highly creditable to Tuwarri, were not par- 

 ticipated by his wife, who, on the contrary, showed 

 no concern at her departure, expressed neither 

 thanks nor regrets, nor turned to any person to bid 

 him farewell ; and while Tuwarri was suppressing 

 his tears, she was laughing at the exposure which 

 she thought she should make going into the boat 

 without an accommodation-ladder. Tuwarri while 

 on board showed no curiosity, knew nothing of our 

 language, or evinced any desire to learn it; took 

 very little interest in any thing that was going for- 

 ward, and was very dull of comprehension. He 

 appeared to be a man whose energies had been worn 

 down by hardship and privation, and whom misfor- 

 tune had taught to look on the worst side of every 

 thing. But with all these weak points, he had 

 many good qualities. He lent a willing hand to 

 pull at a rope, was cleanly and quiet, punctually at- 

 tended church on Sundays, and had a strong sense of 

 right and wrong, which, as far as his abilities enabled 

 him, governed his actions. He had a warm heart, 

 and his attachment to his wife and children amount- 

 ed even to weakness. He had a tolerable know- 

 ledge of the relative situation of the islands of the 

 archipelago, and readily drew a chart of them, 

 assigning to each its name, though, as I have said 

 before, he never could recognise them. Some of 

 these we were able to identify, and perhaps should 

 have done so with others, had there not been so 

 much sameness in all the coral islands. 



Mr. Belcher, who was in command of the barge 



