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third stated that Madera was very ill at the capital, while it was asserted C^P. 
by others that he was dead, or that he was banished to Patanjan*. They 
all maintained they had never any knowledge of such persons as Shang- May, 
fwee, and Shang-Pungfwee, the names given to the king and prince of 
Loo Choo in Captain Hall’s publication. From this conversation it 
was very evident that they knew perfectly well who Ookoma a,nd 
Madera were, but did not intend to give us any correct information 
about them. 
I was a little vexed to find that neither An-yah nor Isaacha-Sandoo, 
who was also of our party, and is mentioned by Captain Hall, made 
the slightest inquiry after any of the officers of the Alceste or Lyra, by 
whom they had been treated in the most friendly manner, and for whom 
it might have been inferred, from the tears that were shed by the Loo 
Chooans on the departure of those ships, that the greatest regard had 
been entertained. The only time they alluded to them was when Mrs. 
Loy recurred to their imagination. 
When they had drank enough sackee, they rose to take their leave, 
and, emptying the contents of the fruit dishes into their pockets, re- 
tired in great good humour ; but An-yah, not quite satisfied about the 
number of men on board the ship, probably imagining, from the number 
he saw aloft, that there were many more, again asked the question, “ how 
many mans?” and on being answered as before, replied “ not got hun- 
dred one ?” which he wrote down a second time ; and having satisfied 
himself on this knotty point shook us by the hand and said, “ well I 
speakee mandarin, to-morrow come water; Doo Chooman no want pay: 
fife day you go away.” “ That,” I returned, « will depend upon the 
health of the sick, who must be allowed to land and walk about.” I 
then desired him to tell the mandarin, that to-morrow I should go on 
shore and wait on him in his own house. An-yah, alarmed lest the 
threat might be carried into execution, hastily exclaimed, «No,no, I 
speakee mandarin, mans go shore, walk about, no go house-no go 
house.” Thus by threatening to do more than was intended, we ob- 
tained a tacit consent to that which we wanted without much chance of 
* An island situated near Ty-ping-chan, upon wlilch Captain Broughton was wreeked. 
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