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Though the accounts I had previoufly received of this 
new man (as he was called at Macoa) had greatly raifed 
my expectations, yet when I had been a little time in his 
company, I was perfectly aftonifhed at the eafe and gentle- 
nefs of his manners; he was lively and pleafant, and had 
a politenefs without form or reftraint, which appeared to 
be the refult of natural good-breeding.—As I chanced to 
lit near him at table, I paid him a great deal of attention, 
which he feemed to be very fenlible of.—Many queftions 
were of courfe put to Captain Wilson by the company, 
concerning this perfonage, and the country he had brought 
him from, which no European had ever vilited before; he 
obligingly entered on many particular circumftances which 
were highly interefting, fpoke of the battles in which his 
people had affifced the King of Pelew, and of the peculiar 
manner the natives had of tying up their hair when going 
to- war; Lee Boo, who fully underftood what his friend 
was explaining, very obligingly, and unaiked, untied his 
own, and threw it into the form Captain Wilson had 
been defcribing.—I might tire the reader were I to enume¬ 
rate the trivial occurrences of a few hours, rendered only 
of confequence from the hngularity of this young man’s 
iituation ; fuffice it to fay, there was in all his deportment 
fuch affability and propriety of behaviour, that when he 
took leave of the company, there was hardly any one pre- 
fent who did not feel a fatisfaction in having had an in¬ 
terview with him. 
I went 
