THE PE LEW ISLANDS. 
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I went to Rotherhithe, a few days after, to fee Captain 
Wilson ; Lee Boo was reading at a window, he recollected 
me inftantly, and flew! with eagernefs to the door to meet 
me, looked on me as a friend, and ever after attached him- 
felf to me, appearing to he happy whenever we met toge¬ 
ther.—-In this vifit I had a good deal of converfation with 
him, and we mutually managed to be pretty well under- 
ftood by each other; he feemed to be pleafed with every 
thing about him, faid, All fine country ,fine Jlreet , fine coach , 
and houfe upo n houfe up to fTty , putting alternately one hand 
above another, by which I found (their own habitations 
being all on the ground) that every feparate flory of our 
buildings he at that time confidered as a diftinCt houfe. 
He was introduced to feveral of the Directors of the India 
Company, taken to vifit many of the Captain’s friends, and 
gradually fhewn moft of the public buildings in the different 
quarters of the town ; but his prudent conductor had the 
caution to avoid taking him to any places of public enter¬ 
tainment, left he might accidentally, in thofe heated reforts, 
catch the fmall-pox, a difeafe which he purpofed to ino¬ 
culate the young Prince with, as foon as he had acquired 
enough of our language to be reafoned into the necefiity of 
fubmitting to the operation; judging, and Purely not with¬ 
out good reafon, that by giving him fo offenfive and trou- 
blefome a diftemper, without lirft explaining its nature, 
and preparing his mind to yield to it, it might weaken 
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