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* 7 8 3 - was the next morning; much furprized at not feeing; land.— 
NOVEMBER. 
Captain Wilson now clothed him in a fhirt, waiftcoat, and a 
pair of trowfers; he appeared to feel himfelf uneafy in wear¬ 
ing the two firft articles, and foon took them off and folded 
them up, ufing them only as a pillow; but, being impreffed 
with an idea of the indelicacy of having no clothing, he ne¬ 
ver appeared without his trowfers; and as the veffel, pro¬ 
ceeding northward, advanced into a climate gradually grow¬ 
ing colder, he felt lefs inconvenience in putting on again his 
jacket and fhirt; to which, when he had been a little time 
accuftomed, his new-taught fenfe of propriety was fo great, 
that he would never change his drefs, or any part of it, in the 
prefence of another perfon, always retiring for that purpofe to 
fome dark corner where no one could fee him.-—The mo¬ 
tion of the veffel at firft made him very fea-fick, and obli¬ 
ged him frequently to lie down; this ficknefs abating, he 
had one of the apples given him which had been brought 
from Pelew ; he expreffed a doubt about eating it; but, 
being told it was the Captain’s defire, and that Abba Thulle 
had fent them for him, he obferved to Boy am, that he was 
much indulged, none but a few great people having his 
father’s permiffion to eat of this fruit *. 
This young man was remarkably clean in his perfon, 
walking himfelf feveral times a day; and as foon as he was 
* This remark of Lee Boo’s agrees with the King’s telling Captain Wilson,, 
when he gave him thofe apples, that they were a great rarity. 
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