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countrymen at Oroolong fly to their arms;—it might, in 
truth, have alarmed a whole garrifon.—Though when he 
had been fome time here, he readily caught two or three 
Englijh longs, in which his voice appeared by no means in¬ 
harmonious. 
Lee Booh temper was very mild and compaffionate, difco- 
vering, in various inftances, that he had brought from his fa¬ 
ther’s territories that fpirit of philanthropy, which we have 
feen reigned there; yet he at all times governed it by difcretion 
and judgment.—If he faw the young afking relief, he would 
rebuke them with what little Englijh he was mafler of, telling 
them, it was a fhame to beg when they were able to work ; 
but the intreaties of old age he could never withfland, fay¬ 
ing, muft give poor old man—old man no able to work. 
I am perfectly convinced, that Captain Wilson, from the 
confidence which the King had repofed in him, would have 
held himfelf inviolably bound to protedt and ferve this 
young creature to the utmofl extent of his abilities; but, in¬ 
dependant of what he felt was due to the noble character of 
Abba Tkulle, there was fo much gentlenefs, and fo much 
gratitude lodged at Lee Boo’s heart, that not only the Cap¬ 
tain, but every part of his family, viewed him with the 
warmeft fentiments of difinterefled affedtion.—Mr. H. Wil¬ 
son, the Captain’s fon, being a youth of a very amiable cha- 
radter, and a few years younger than Lee Boo, they had, 
during their voyage to, and flay in China, become mutually 
I attached 
