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familiar, running up at once instead of keeping in 

 the back ground, as if at last assured of our good 

 intentions. 



Mammoos would go on board with me, taking a 

 large tortoise-shell figure of a boy, three feet high, 



and very curiously constructed, for which I had no 

 room, but which he sold to Mr. Bell for an axe. # 



* It is now in the Museum of the United Service Institution. 

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