178 cook's voyage to may, 



that he was only a common servant, yet this being 

 no time to sacrifice our little comforts to our pride, 

 we prevented an explanation, by not suffering the 

 question to be put to him; and, in return for the 

 satisfaction we reaped from his abilities as a linguist, 

 we continued to let him live on a footing of equality 

 with us. 



