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1783. the King, his father, lived in a manner very different, hav- 
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ing only a little fiih, a yam, or a cocoa-nut, which he eat 
from off a leaf, and drank out of the fhell of the nut; and 
when his meal was finifhed, wiped his mouth and his fingers 
with a bit of cocoa-nut hulk ; whereas the company prefent 
eat a bit of one thing, and then a bit of another, the fervants 
always fupplying them with a different plate, and different 
forts of veffels to drink out of.—He feemed from the firft to 
relifh tea ; coffee he dilliked the fmell of, and therefore re- 
fufed it, at the fame time telling Captain Wilson he would 
drink it if he ordered him .—On their arrival at Macoa, one of 
the feamen being much intoxicated, Lee Boo expreffed great 
concern, thinking him very ill, and applied to Mr. Sharp, 
the furgeon, to go and fee him ; being told nothing material 
ailed him, that it was only the effedt of a liquor, that common 
people were apt to indulge in, and that he would foon be 
well, he appeared fatisfied ; but would never after even tafte 
fpirits, if any were offered him, faying, it was not drink fit 
for gentlemen .—As to his eating and drinking, he was in 
both temperate to a degree. 
After they had been about five or fix days at Canton, 
Mr. Benger, and the men who remained with him at Ma¬ 
coa, accompanied by Mr. MUntyre, came up in one of the 
country-boats to Canton. —The window where Lee Boo 
was then at breakfaff looked towards the water; the moment 
he got a diltant view of them, without faying a word to the 
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