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of fome moment ; for every attention was confidered as due to him 

 who had left the civilized world to vi'fit thofe fo far removed from it. 

 The perfonal inte'reft that he might have in the vifit was forgotten ; 

 and from the folicitude to hear news each contended who mould be 

 iirft in ads of hofpitality. If he afterwards found himfelf negle&ed, 

 it was becaufe he was no longer a flranger ; his intelligence was ex- 

 haufted, and he had funk into the mere tradefman. 



This fhip had on board flores and provifions for the fettlement. 

 She had touched at the ifland of Amfterdam in her way to Port Jack- 

 foil, and taken off four men, two Trench and two Englifh, who had 

 Jived there three years, having been left from a brig which was taken 

 on to China by the Lion man of war. One of the Frenchmen, M. 

 Perron, apparently deferved a better kind of fociety than his compa- 

 nions fupplied. He had kept an accurate and neatly-written journal 

 of his proceedings, with fome well- drawn views of the fpot to which 

 he was fo long confined. It appeared, that they had, in the hope of 

 their own or fome other veffel arriving to take them off, collected and 

 cured, feveral thoufands of feal-fkins, which, however, they were 

 compelled to abandon. M. Perron and his companions had fub T 

 fifted for the laft eighteen months on the flefh.of feals. 



The day following this arrival the fignal announced a fecond, which 

 proved to be the fnow Experiment, commanded by Mr. Edward 

 M'Clellan, who had before been in that country ; and a few hours 

 after,. the fhip Otter, from Boflon, in North America, anchored in the 

 Cove. Mr. M'Clellan had on board a large inveflment of India goods 5 

 muflins, calicoes, chintzes, foap, fugar, fpirits, and a variety of fmall 

 articles, apparently the fweepings of a Bengal bazar; the fale of 

 which inveflment he expe&ed would produce ten or twelve thoufand 

 pounds. 



The American, either finding the market over flocked, or having 

 had fome other motive for touching at Port Jackfon,. declared that he 

 had nothing for fale ; but that he could, as a favour, fpare two hog- 

 £heads of Jamaica rum, three pipes of Madeira, fixty- eight quarter 



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