FIRST PROVINCE OF THE GREAT OCEAN. lOl 



the sailors as slaves. He once ordered the waiter 

 to bring him a glass of water j the latter took him 

 by the arm, led him to the water-butt, and gave 

 him the cup out of which the others drank. He 

 reflected, and studied our relations, and the spirit 

 of our manners, to which he soon learnt to conform, 

 and to adopt our behaviour at table, as well as in 

 general. 



Kadu learnt only by degrees the power of our 

 spirituous liquors ; some of us imagined that he, at 

 the beginning, got the sailors to give him brandy. 

 Some time after, when a sailor was punished, he was 

 told that it was because he had privately taken 

 some of the fire, (the name which he gave to 

 brandy.) He never after drank brandy ; and wine, 

 of which he was very fond, but with great moder- 

 ation. The sight of drunken men at Oonalashka 

 made him carefully keep a guard upon himself. 



At the beginning he adjured the winds in our 

 favour, according to the custom of Eap; we laugh- 

 ed, and he soon laughed himself at these adjur- 

 ations, which he afterwards only repeated in joke, 

 to amuse us. 



Kadu had feeling, sense, and wit ; the more we 

 became acquainted with him, the more partial we 

 were to him. We found in his amiable character 

 only a certain indolence to contend with, which 

 counteracted our views j he only liked either to 

 sing or sleep. 



When we tried to draw from him information 

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