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would allow the King, to examine his head, noticing the 
long Angle-braided lock of hair hanging almoft down to 
the calves of their legs. 
The King gave great attention to all that the General faid, 
and feemed to be making many enquiries of him ; by Raa 
Kook’s geftures it was evident that he was conveying to 
his brother an idea that there were many different na¬ 
tions in different parts of the world, fome of which were 
called French*, with whom the Englifh tliemfelves were then, 
at war (this our people, in their many hours of conver- 
fation, had told the General of.) He alfo informed him that 
the China-men were a different kind of men to the EngliJlj, 
an idea which he had himfelf conceived, from obferving 
that the night before, when the Englifh turned out their 
night-watch for the firfl time, the Chinefe had no mufquets, 
but only boarding-pikes, and having enquired the caufe, 
was told that they were not ufed to fight with guns as the 
Engli/h were, which induced him to hold them cheap. 
When the King heard his brother difcourfing about a 
variety of nations difperfed through the world, who all fpoke 
differently, and had before him an example in the Chinefe , 
who did not fpeak in the fame tongue as the Engli/h , 
he appeared inffantly thoughtful and ferious, as if ftruck 
with conceptions that had never eroded his mind before. 
He remained awhile penfive and bewildered; and this 
circumftanc© 
1783- 
AUGUST. 
