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AN ACCOUNT OF 
1783. 
were waiting there to return to Europe, to whom the new 
.DEC£MI3£R e 0 
man , as he was called, gave the preference to any other 
of the fair fex he had feen.—This early decifion made in 
favour of our country-women, and made by one who could 
feel no prejudices, but judged by his eye —had this amiable 
youth lived to have been much known in England, muft 
have infured him the countenance and favour of all the 
ladies. 
Having no quadrupeds at Pelew, the two dogs left there 
were the only kind he had feen ; therefore the Iheep, goats, 
and other cattle which he met with whilft at Macoa, were 
viewed with wonder. The Newfoundland dog , which had 
been given to his uncle Arra Kooker, being called Sailor, 
he applied the word Sailor to every animal that had four 
legs.—Seeing fome horfes in a liable, he called them Clow 
Sailor, that is, Great Sailor ; but the next day feeing a man 
pafs the houfe on horfeback, he was himfelf fo wonder¬ 
fully aftonilhed, that he wanted every one to go and fee 
the llrange light. He went afterwards to the llables where 
the horfes were ; he felt, he ftroaked them, and was in- 
quilitive to know what their food was, having found, by 
offering them fome oranges he had in his pocket, that 
they would not eat them. He was ealily perfuaded to get 
on one of their backs; and when he was informed what a 
noble, docile, and ufeful animal it was, he with much 
earneltnefs 
