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sea J and when I gave him to understand that I 

 did not comprehend his language, he was vexed 

 with himself, and talked always louder and quicker, 

 while his looks viewed, without intermission, all the 

 new objects around him, but without interrupting 

 his conversation. When he was particularly 

 pleased with any thing, he could not refrain from 

 laying hold of it to inquire after its use ; if we 

 could make him comprehend it, he expressed his 

 astonishment by a loud prolonged O — h / His 

 companions, who otherwise did not utter a sound, 

 repeated it ; and the third echo of the long O — h/ 

 resounded from the canoes. He cried aloud to 

 them what he had seen, again repeated his O — hf 

 and continued his conversation till a new object 

 attracted his attention. Among other things, he 

 laid hold of a tin box, which he examined on all 

 sides with much curiosity, and, when I opened the 

 lid, started back with a loud O — h / He imme- 

 diately announced the wonderful circumstance to 

 the people in the canoes, and when I opened seve- 

 ral boxes he was quite beside himself with astonish- 

 ment, and there was no end of his monotonous 

 exclamation. I shall call this inquisitive man 

 Rarick, for so he was called by his companions, 

 and I was delighted that his name differed from 

 that of our ship in only a single letter. After I had 

 long entertained myself with this amiable Rarick, 

 and he had forced me to accept shell-wreaths, and 

 several other of his elegantly wrought ornaments, I 



