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lution, the same hope as our friend. He was a 

 weak venerable old man ; his request was not at- 

 tended to. It was difficult to persuade him to leave 

 the ship, where he persisted in remaining in tears, 

 in the composed attitude by which he meant to 

 make us sensible of his resolution. We represented 

 to him his age, and the fatigues of our voyage ; he 

 remained inflexible. We then told him that our 

 stock was taken in only for a certain number of 

 people : he proposed to us to leave our friend 

 Kadu here, and take him in his stead. 



We cannot but commend the easy and becoming 

 manner in which Kadu conformed to our customs ; 

 it was difficult for him to understand the new situ- 

 ation in which he was placed. He, a man of low 

 rank, was suddenly placed among strangers so su- 

 perior in power and wealth, treated like one of their 

 officers, waited upon by the sailors in the same 

 manner as the captain. We will not conceal the 

 mistakes into which he sometimes fell, but whicli 

 he so quickly and easily corrected, that they me- 

 rited no severe reproof. When, shortly after he 

 was received among us, chiefs from Radack 

 came on board, he treated them with haughtiness, 

 and assumed a behaviour which became only them. 

 Some innocent raillery on their part was no more 

 than he deserved : it never occurred a second time. 

 He, at first, tried to imitate the walk and the man- 

 ners of the captain, but gave it up of himself. It 

 is not remarkable that he should, at first, consider 

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