THE PELEW ISLANDS. 
The next day he had more leifure to examine the houfe 
in which they had flept; the upright walls and flat cielings 
ftill continued to be the obje£ts of his furprize ; he was per- 
petually feeling the firft, as if he thought he could thereby 
gain an idea of their conftrudtion; but the latter feeming 
felf-fupported, was beyond what his mind could at that 
time comprehend. 
As our people were too numerous to remain with Mr* 
M‘Intyre, without trefpafling on him, Captain Wilson 
requefted his afliftance to form an eftablifliment of their 
own ; in which he complied, by accommodating them with 
a houfe belonging to an Engli/b gentleman then at Canton ; 
and, having provided them with fervants and neceflaries for 
their table, they fent for the crew of the Oroolong on 
fliore, leaving one officer and a few men on board, who were 
alternately relieved.. 
Soon after our people came on fliore, fome of them 
went to purchafe things they were in want of, in doing 
which they did not forget Lee Boo, who was a favourite 
with them all; they bought him fome little trinkets, fuch 
as they thought would from their novelty pleafe him.— 
Amongft them, was a firing of large glafs beads, the firft 
fight of which almoft threw him into an ecftafy; he hugged 
them with a tranfport that could not be exceeded by the in- 
terefted pofleffor of a firing of pearls of equal magnitude.— 
His imagination told him he had in his hands all the wealth 
the 
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1783. 
DECEMBER, 
Tuefday 2, 
