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he replied that he should depart in seven days, she burst into 

 tears, and was with great difficulty pacified. When the fatal 

 hour arrived, she threw herself down upon the arm-chest and 

 wept passionately. She was with difficulty got over the side 

 into her canoe, where she sat the picture of helpless, unutter- 

 able woe. Wallis tossed her articles of use and ornament, which 

 she silently accepted without looking at them. He subsequently 

 bade her adieu more privately on shore. A fresh breeze sprang 

 ip, and the Dolphin left the island on the 27th of July. 



PARTING OF WALLIS AND 0 B E R E A. 



On his way to Tinian he discovered several islands, one of 

 which the officers did their commander the honor of calling 

 Wallis' Island. At Tinian they found every article mentioned 

 by Lord Anson, though it required no little time and labor to 

 noose a bullock or bag a banana. When they left, each man 

 had laid in five hundred limes. On the passage to Batavia, and 

 thence to Table Bay, the sick-list was very large, and several 

 men were lost by disease and accident. At the Cape, the crew 



