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\\ hull strangers cauie ou boarii lie approached 



Hbeia wMli ^mtioa, mi. at « disH^xmt ^ 

 mmdtmd consistent with his ideas of safefy. Tiijt 

 the ladies lie did not evince iiiiy partiality ; we 

 had noiK? on l)oard by whit-li we couhl judge* 

 whether a few days or weeks of their powerful 

 fsiscinatbns wodid h$itB mf isSe^tm. tifi^. The 

 only lady who Imd iboni^sir^ hitn^^tb h^ l&Otiefi^ 

 was one who came on t^OdJrd ftom n ship we spoke 

 at sea ; ]io evinced, liowcverj no partiality to the 

 gentle sex, and would not permit her to caress 

 him : whether it was the bonnet, which was of 

 the calibre of IB^^ 0t t^&t {»»rU<iils of the lady % 

 dress, that excited hia iicditgiiation, I cannot say, 

 as the animal conhl not communicate Ins opi- 

 nions; whatever tlie cause might have been, 

 he was evidently not eager to become ac* 



qnakted iW* W mmli show ^ disposi* 

 tion to bite !f she attempted to caress liim. 

 As slie appeared at fir^t timid of approaching' 

 him, this show of warfare may liave lieen occa- 

 sioned by it, and in simie degree have made 



the conning brote: feep up th^$^ feeling* I 

 1^ ai^qndnted wiIIl t lisdy in 6eyl^ 



having been bitten by a cockatoo, always evinced 

 great terror at the ap])roach of one which was 

 kept by her Ayah, or lady's-maid, in the 



