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they were brought in with unusual ceremony and much 

 apparent concern on the part of the chief ; on one or two 

 occasions when by some negligence, parts of our instru- 

 ments were mislaid, even upon the summits of mountains, 

 we did not fail to remark the distress of mind exhibited 

 in their countenance, through their anxiety to restore 

 them. Such manifestations of integrity prove that 

 they have a sound perception of the principles of right 

 and wrong ; even the coolies employed in transporting 

 our effects were characterized by these remarkable traits, 

 and in an insulated tract so far removed from the seat of 

 civilization, it could not but excite the most agreeable 

 reciprocity of feeling. 



In general manners I incline to think these islanders 

 differ from their friends of the Loo-Choo district, being 

 much more resolute and active, and not unsparing even 

 in their methods of coercion, substituting often the bam- 

 boo for the fan. This rendered them in my opinion 

 far more interesting than their monotonous neighbours, 

 the Loo-Chooans ; they exhibited a greater disposition 

 to be friendly, and many excited a degree of attachment 

 that was not broken at parting, nor, as far as the eye 

 witnesseth, without emotion. 



I cannot leave this remote people without testifying still 

 further to their amiability of disposition one towards the 

 other; they seldom quarrel, or even betray feelings of 

 resentment, the use of fire-arms or of any offensive weapon 

 is unknown among them. All crimes of any enormity 

 are submitted to trial at Loo-Choo, and we were given 

 to understand, as well as our interpreter could explain it, 

 that the culprits were sent in the monsoon junks to be 



