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iMANNERS Tiie aBfence of the Captain, and the great heaps of iron, fuggefteH 



;to Tourai the idea of profiting by this opportunity, and prompted 

 her to purloin fome of the fine iron goods ^ flie defired her brother 



divert my 



he .called 



to xh 



ndow and wanted 



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to ihew me .fomething in the canoes furrounding our fhip j I 

 /iufpeded their defign^ and went where he called me, 'hut kept an 

 eye on O-Too'-s fifler, who immediately feized two large tcri inch 



fpikes 



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cealed them carefully under her garment 



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quairited Captain Cook at his return with the tranfadion^ b 



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reed to diffemble, and. not to alarm their 'fea 



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the briflcnefs 



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of the trade might not be interrupted. However, I made the 

 following obfervations, that the fight of fuch treafures of iron, 

 muft have been very great temptations 3 becaufe Tourai and 0-Too 



ght have had 



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up 



barely afking for thern. 



d that therefore the idea of acquiring them 



flealth 



fhould 



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feemtohea-fudden irrefiftible im^pulfe, capable of overcoming the 

 turpitude of the avftion, the danger and Ihame of being expofed 

 and reo:arded as thteves, and the king becoming himfelf accefiary 

 to the meanefi: tranfadion j however, the complaifance of the 



'king for his fifler, was e 



evident, and in 



fome meafure 



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:makes his condefcenfion in my opinion, lefs -culpable; nor 

 I wifh by this obfervation to brand Tourai or O-Toa, as 



would 

 people 



of abandoned morals, and capable of committing any immoral 



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