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deference, defired it.-—Mrs. Wilson happening to have 
fome indifpofition at this time, which confined her to her 
bed, Lee Boo, on hearing of it, became impatient, faying, 
What , Mother ill! Lee Boo get up to fee her\ which he did, 
and would go to her apartment, to be fatisfied how fhe 
really was. 
On the Thurfday before his death, walking acrofs the 
room, he looked at himfelf in the glafs (his face being then 
much fwelled and disfigured) ; he fhook his head, and turn¬ 
ed away, as if difgufted at his own appearance, and told 
Mr. Sharp, that his father and mother much grieve , for they 
knew he was very fick ; this he repeated feveral times.—At 
night, growing worfe, he appeared to think himfelf in dan¬ 
ger; he took Mr. Sharp by the hand, and, fixing his eyes 
fiedfaftly on him, with earneftnefs faid, Good friend , when you 
go to Pelew, tell Abba Thulle that Lee Boo take much 
drink to make fmall-pox go away , but he die;—that the Captain 
and Mother (meaning Miftrefs Wilson) very kind — allYng- 
lifh very good men \~was- much forry he could not fpeak to the 
King the number of fine things the Englifh had got .— 1 Then he 
reckoned what had been given him as prefents, which he 
wifhed Mr. Sharp would diftribute, when he went back, 
among the Chiefs; and requefted that very particular care 
might be taken of the blue glafs barrels on pedeftals, which 
he directed fhould be given to the King. 
Poor Tom Rose, who Rood at the foot of his young 
mailer’s 
