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which we might be furnifhed ; and that this he mould '779- 



, May. 



tranfmit to his Court, as a certificate of having performed 

 his duty. I fhall leave (he continued) to the two Courts, all 

 farther acknowledgments ; but cannot confent to accept any- 

 thing of the kind alluded to. 



When this matter was adjuftcd, he began to inquire about 

 our private wants ; faying, he mould confider himfelf as ill 

 ufed, if we had any dealings with the merchants, or applied 

 to any other perfon except himfelf. 



In return for fuch lingular generofity, we had little to 

 bellow but our admiration and our thanks. Fortunately, 

 however, Captain Clerke had fent by me a let of prints an 1 

 maps, belonging to the lafl voyage of Ciptain Cook, which 

 he defired me to preftnt in his name to the Commander; 

 who being an enthufiaft in every thing relating to difcove- 

 ries, received it with a fatisfaction which fhewed, that, 

 though a trifle, nothing could have been more acceptable. 

 Captain Clerke had likewife intruded me with a discretion- 

 ary power of fhewing him a chart of the difcoveries made 

 in the prefent voyage ; and as I judged, that a perfon in his 

 Situation, and of his turn of mind, would be exceedingly 

 gratified by a communication of this fort, though, out of 

 delicacy, he had forborn to afk more than a few general 

 queftions on the fubject, I made no fcruple to repofe in him 

 a-confidence, of which his whole conduct mewed him to be 

 deferving. 



I had the pleafure to find, that he felt this compliment 



as I hoped he would, and was much ftruck at feeing, in one 



view, the whole of that coaft, as well on the fide of Afia as on 



that of America, of which his countrymen had been fo many 



7 years 



