THE PELEW ISLANDS, 
343 
ignorant of the advantages they might enjoy, faying, that 
on this ifland they had but little wood, yet applied it to a 
good purpofe ; that at Pelew they had great abundance, 
and knew not how to tife it — Adding, that when he 
went back, he would fpeak to the King, tell him how de¬ 
fective they were, and have men employed to make fuch 
bowers as he had feen. 
Such were the dawnings of a mind that felt its own dark- 
nefs—and had the good-fenfe to catch at every ray of light 
that might lead him forward to information and improve¬ 
ment t 
Before the Morse quitted Saint Helena, the Las- 
celles arrived, by which occurrence Lee Boo had an in¬ 
terview with his firif friend, Mr. Sharp ; he had a fight of 
him from a window, and ran out with the utmoft impatience 
to take him by the hand ; happy, after fo long a reparation, 
to meet him again, and evincing by his ardour the grateful 
fentiments he retained of the attention- that gentleman had 
fhewn him. 
As he drew near the Britifh channel, the number of veffels 
that he obferved purfuing their different courfes, increafing 
fo much, he was obliged to give up the keeping of his 
journal; but was ftill very inquifitive to know, whither they 
were failing.—When the Morse got to the Isle of Wight, 
Captain Wilson, his brother, the Prince, with feveral other 
paffengers, quitted her, and coming in a boat between the 
Needles, 
