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CHAP. 

 XV. 



.787. 



feflivity. Tyaana immediately enquired what they wanted, 

 and being told that they were beggars who came to fup- 

 December. plicatc the rcfule of the table, he expreffed great concern, 

 laying that he was very ferry to fee any perfons in want of 

 , food, and that it was quite a new fcene to him ; for that 

 they had no people of that defcription nt Atoui 5 he- 

 feemed to be under great impatience to procure them 

 relief, and became a very importunate foliciter on their be- 

 half. The captain's generous difpolition readily co-operated 

 with his importunities, and he ordered all the broken viduals, 

 being a large quantity, to be brought upon deck, and Tyaana 

 had the diftribution of it among the poor Tartars, which 

 he did, obferving the moft equal, impartial diviiion he 

 was able to make of it ; and his pleafure and fatisfadion 

 in the performance of that tails: were not lefs vifible in his 

 countenance than his adions. 



I ASKED him if he was willing to go to Pretane^ but 

 he told me that he expelled to have been there in twelve 

 moons, but that now he fhould be glad to return to Atoui. 

 It feems captain Mears had engaged in a Portugucfe ex- 

 pedition to the coaft of America, and promifed to leave 

 Tyaana at Atoui in his paflage thither. The gentlemen 

 at Canton, defirous to give him lafting proofs of their 

 friendfhip and efteem, furnifhed him v/ith whatever could 

 be ufeful or acceptable ; fuch as bulls, cows, fheep, goats, 

 rabbits, turkies, &c. with oranges-, mangoes, and various 

 ■ kinds of plants ; fo that his fafe arrival with his cargo 

 would prove of the utmoft value to his country, and an 

 honourable tedimony to his countrymen of the diflin- 

 guifhed efteem and regard with which he had been treated, 



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