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tain Wilson, to fhew him his riches, and, enraptured with 
the idea that his family fhould fhare them with him, he, in 
the utmoft agitation, intreated Captain Wilson would im¬ 
mediately get him a Chinefe veffel, to carry his treafures to 
Pelew, and deliver them to the King, that he might dif- 
tribute them as he thought belt, and thereby fee what a 
country the Englifb had conveyed him to ; adding, that 
the people who carried them fhould tell the King, that 
Lee Boo would foon fend him other prefents. He alfo 
told Captain Wilson, that if the people faithfully exe¬ 
cuted their charge, he would (independant of what Abba 
Thulle would give them) prefent them at their return 
with one or two beads, as a reward for their fidelity.— 
Happy ftate of fimplicity and innocence, whofe pleafures 
can be purchafed on fuch eafy terms, and whofe felicity 
arifes from an ignorance of thofe objects which difquiet the 
human race, and agitate their paffions ! But one grieves to 
think this fentiment cannot be indulged, without reflecting 
how foon a knowledge of the world deftroys the illufion of 
this enviable enchantment! 
In a few days Captain Wilson received letters from the 
fupra-cargoes , exprefling their concern for his misfortunes, 
and the fatisfaCtion they received in his fafe return, with 
his fhip’s company, after fo many perils; accompanying the 
letters with a variety of neceffaries, and warm clothes, and 
advifing 
