5 2 
AN ACCOUNT OF 
17 8 3 « The Engli/h, as far as they collected from Mr. M. WiL- 
AUGUST. ° J 
son’s account, and from the urbanity and attention fhewn 
them by the two dignified Chiefs, who had now been their 
guefts for fome days, in happier moments, with the certainty 
before them of getting away whenever they pleafed, would 
have enjoyed the fociety of their new friends; but the doubt 
of what they might further get from the fhip to aid the 
building of another, and the uncertainty whether they 
might ever fee again their country and families, conftantly 
preffed on their minds fuch a weight of anxiety, that the re¬ 
flections of fenfibility were often wringing their hearts, 
when the fortitude their prudence aflumed, and the attention 
due to their hofpitable protestors, compelled them to fubdue 
their natural feelings, and mafk. their countenances with ac° 
quiefcent fmiles. 
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