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AN ACCOUNT OF 
that unbounded confidence which this youth placed in his 
adopted father. 
After he had been awhile fettled, and a little habituated 
to the manners of this country, he was fent every day to an 
Academy at Rotherhithe, to be inftrudied in reading and 
writing, which he was himfelf eager to attain, and moft 
affiduous in learning; his whole deportment, whilft there, 
Was fo engaging, that it not only gained him the efteem of 
the gentleman under whofe tuition he was placed, but alfo 
the affedtion of his young companions;—in the hours of 
recefs, when he returned to the Captain’s houfe, he amufed 
the whole family by his vivacity, noticing every particula¬ 
rity he faw in any of his fchool-fellows, with great good- 
humour mimicking their different manners, fometimes fay¬ 
ing he would have a fchool of his own when he returned 
to Pelew, and fhould be thought very wife when he taught 
the great people their letters. 
He always addreffed Mr. Wilson by the appellation of 
Captain ; but never would call Mrs. Wilson (to whom he be¬ 
haved with the warm eft affediion) by any other name than 
that of Mother , looking on that as a mark of the greateft re- 
fpedt.—Being often told he fhould fay Mrs. Wilson, his con- 
ftant reply was, No, no — Mother , Mother . 
Captain Wilson, when invited to dine with his friends, 
was generally accompanied by Lee Boo; on which occa- 
fions, there was fo much eafe and politenefs in his behaviour, 
as 
