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than ever, and I found him in a disposition to com- 

 plain bitterly against the English. No acknow- 

 ledgement, he said, had been made for the kind 

 attentions of himself and the chief men of his 

 country to the officers and people of the Brilliant, 

 though a whole year had elapsed since the wreck. 

 I really wondered at the forgetfulness, to which alone 

 such a neglect could be imputed, and assured him 

 that I would express my opinion both in Bengal and 

 In letters to England. " We have little," said he,: 

 *' to hope from letters ; for, when we have been paid 

 * l with them instead of money, and have shewn 

 * c them on board your ships, we have commonly 

 ** been treated with disdain, and often with impreca- 

 ** tions." I assured him, that either those letters 

 must have been written coldly and by very obscure 

 persons, or shown to very ill-bred men, of whom 

 there were too many in all nations ^ but that a few 

 instances of rudeness ought not to give him a general 

 prejudice against our national character. " But you,"' 

 said he, " are a wealthy nation, and we are indigent,. 

 " yet, though all our groves of cocoa-trees, our 

 " fruits, and our cattle, are ever at your service, you 

 " always try to make hard bargains with us for what 

 *• you chuseto dispose of > and frequently will neither 

 " sell nor give those things which we principally 

 " want." 4 To form,' said I, ' a just opinion of 



* Englishmen, you must visit us in our own island, 

 ■ or at least India ; here we are strangers and travel. 



* lers : many of us have no design to trade in any 

 4 country, and none of us think of trading in: 



* Hinzuan, where we stop only for' refreshment. 

 ' The clothes, arms, or instruments, which yoir 



* may want, are commonly necessary or conveniens: 

 £ to us • but, \{ Sayyad Alzvi or his sons were to be 

 1 strangers in our country, you would have no rea- 

 4 son to boast of superior hospitality.' He then 

 showed me, a second time, a part of an old silk vest,, 

 with the star of the Order of the Thistle, and be^- 



