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! 7 ^ which marked the interview of the preceding day.—-And I 
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doubt not but by this time the reader will have fhared a por¬ 
tion of that concern, for his unfortunate countrymen, which 
was awakened in their hofoms by this unexpected alteration in 
the behaviour of the natives. What will he think of the hearts 
of thefejKt?/ unknown inhabitants of Pelew ?—He will have 
already loaded them with reproach, and judged, too hardly 
judged them to be an inconfiftent, faithlefs people, on whom 
no reliance could be placed, whom no profefiion could bind. 
-—His imagination may have ftarted a multitude of conjec¬ 
tures, yet at lalt will probably fuppofe any thing fooner than 
the real caufe which fpread this vilible dejeCtion over their 
true character. — Never perhaps was exhibited a nobler 
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druggie of native delicacy; their hearts burnt within them 
to afk a favour, which the generality of their feelings would 
not allow them to mention.—The EngliJJj had been and ftili 
were in their power; they had fought their protection as 
unfortunate Itrangers.—The natives had already fhewn them, 
and hill meant to drew them, every mark of hofpitality which 
their naked, unproductive country could afford.—They con¬ 
ceived that what they wifhed to afk, as it might prove a 
temporary inconvenience, would look ungenerous; and that 
which molt checked their fpeaking was, that, circumftanced 
as the Englijh were with refpeCt to them, a requeft would 
have the appearance of a command; an idea this, which 
fhocked 
