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1783. . Sqogle, the Malay , who had dared to throw out infinua- 
NOVEMBER. 
tions prejudicial to the Enghjh. He was communicative to 
our people on every occafion, and at all times willing to 
explain any thing to them ; and, had they always had the 
linguift at their elbow, or a language in which they could 
have ealier converfed with him, many things might have 
been cleared up, which mud: now remain undetermined.—* 
With all thefe excellent qualities, he appeared in his do- 
meftic character equally refpedable; as the reader will re¬ 
coiled!, who has had a view of his pleafant deportment in 
his own family, and has feen him in all the lilent majefty of 
grief attending the obfequies of a valiant fon who had been 
flain in fighting for his country.—To all thefe circumftances 
I muft add, that the concern he difcovered in taking leave 
of his nephew, and our countrymen, evidently proved there 
was no fmall portion of fenfibility lodged about his heart. 
Whilft I am doling this lad: remark on the character of 
Raa Kook, I cannot avoid making a general obfervation on 
the people of Pelew, who, though they appeared to be 
Philofophers in adverfity, Stoics in pain, and Heroes in death, 
yet, in many of the more delicate feelings of the human 
bread:, they poffeffed all the amiable tendernefs of a wo¬ 
man ! 
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