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preffed no furprize at what was doing, but appeared clearly 
to underhand that it was the mode in which the Englijh ad- 
dreded that invifible God, whom they looked up to for pro¬ 
tection ; and, however different their own notions might 
be, they attended the Englijh on thefe occafions with great 
refpedt, feeming defirous to join in it, and conffantly pre- 
ferving the mold profound filence—the General never allow¬ 
ing the natives to fpeak a lingle word, and refilling even to 
receive a meffage from the King, which arrived at the tents 
during divine fervice. 
The ceremony ufed by Raa Kook, after the funeral of 
his fon, when he repeated fomething to himfelf whilff he 
was marking the cocoa-nuts, and the bundle of beetle-leaves, 
which the old woman w r as to place on the young man’s 
grave, had every appearance of a pious office ;—and when he 
planted the cocoa-nuts, and fome other fruit-trees, on the 
ifland of Oroolong, what he uttered in a low voice, as each 
feed was depofited in the earth, impreffed thofe prefent as the 
giving a benediction to the future tree that was to fpring 
from it.—The King alfo, when he took leave of his fon, 
laid a few words, which, by the folemnity they were deli¬ 
vered with, and the refpedtful manner in which Lee Boo 
received them, induced all our countrymen to conceive it 
w r as a kind of bleffing. 
I muff, in this place, add a circumffance that paffed in 
converfation with Captain Wilson and Lee Boo, after he 
had been fome time in England ; the former telling him, 
6 that 
