FIRST PROVrNCE OF THE GREAT OCEAN, 99 



The more noble sentiments are always found among 

 the chiefs. 



The inhabitants of Ulea, who live in greater pros- 

 perity and have a more extensive trade than the 

 Radackers, are in many respects superior to them. 

 Kadu enjoyed a certain consideration at Radack. 

 When we visited these islands, he might have arri- 

 ved there about four years before. He had two 

 wives at Aur, and had a daughter by one of them, 

 who was just beginning to speak. 



Our appearance caused terror and consternation 

 at Aur, w^iere no information had yet been received 

 respecting us. The experienced Kadu, who was at 

 that time on a distant island of the group, was im- 

 mediately sent for, and they desired his advice how 

 they should treat the mighty strangers, whom they 

 w'ere inclined to consider as wicked cannibals. 



Kadu had learnt much of the Europeans without 

 ever having seen one of their ships. He encouraged 

 his friends, warned them against theft, and ac- 

 companied them to our ship with the firm resolution 

 to remain with us, hoping through us to see his 

 dear native country again, as an European ship had 

 once been at Ulea at a time when he was absent. , 



One of his countrymen, and c npanion in mis- 

 fortune, who was with him, tried in vain to dissuade 

 him from his purpose, and his other friends, equally 

 in vain, assailed him with anxious representations : 

 he was immoveable. Another companion of Kadu, 

 the chief of Eap, wliom w^e met w ith in the suite of 

 king Lamary, at Udirick, conceived the same reso- 



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