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from whofe talents and art they had received a knowledge 
and information which had never hitherto reached them; 
they faw them exhilarated with the profpedt of returning 
once more (after all their dangers) to their own country, 
whither they were bearing back thofe envied faculties 
which they might never witnefs again. And yet we be¬ 
hold thefe virtuous natives, glowing with the fpirit of true 
philanthropy, in the general tranfport forgetting them- 
felves, and rejoicing with thofe that rejoiced ! 
The veffel was immediately hauled into a dock that had 
oeen dug for her, and fafely moored, when all went to 
breakfaft—the King and the Rupacks with the Captain, the 
attendants with the people : this was indeed the happieft 
and moft comfortable meal they had eaten fince the lofs of the 
Antelope. When breakfaft was over, they got up fhears, 
and took in the mafts, the water-cafks, and the two fix- 
pounders. They now made the King a prefent of all the 
other tools they could fpare ; and took up the ways, on ac¬ 
count of the nails, of which they were in want. The veffel 
having flopped two or three times in the launching, which 
had caufed them fome trouble, and more uneaiinefs, in 
taking up the ways they perceived that it had been occa- 
fioned by a nail in the bottom not being drove home, the 
head of which had grooved the plank all the length of the 
ways.—When the flood-tide came in the afternoon, they 
hauled the veffel into the bafon, which was a deep place of 
H h four 
1783. 
NOVEMBER. 
