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CHAPTER XXVII. 
Anecdotes of Lee Boo, fecond Son of Abba Thulle, from 
the 'Time of leaving Canton to bis Death . 
T T AVING given a faithful narrative of all the mate- 
rial occurrences which happened to our people during 
the time they remained in the Pelew Islands, as well 
as fuch information concerning their produce, manners, 
difpofition, way of life, and character of the natives, as 
could be collected in that fpace of time, from the intercourfe 
our countrymen had with them ; I lhall clofe this work 
with fuch anecdotes of Prince Lee Boo, as I have received 
from fome of my particular friends who often faw him, added 
to thofe I have myfelf been witnefs of: — infignificant as 
the amount of the whole may be, yet I think them worth 
recording ;—from a trifling fketch, or a mere outline, 
enough may be gained of character, to convey to the mind 
no fallacious idea of the object aimed at.—In the prefent 
cafe, no more than an outline can be delineated—Had not 
this youth, who came here almoft a ftranger to our lan¬ 
guage, and who lived little more than five months with 
us, been fnatched away fo foon to fill an early grave, I 
X x 2 might 
