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engaged in fuch fervices as ours; that he coukl not there-* 1779. 
fore a <51 fo contrary to the character of his Emprefs, as to M ^ r ‘ 
accept of any hills; but that, to accommodate the matter, 
he would take a bare atteftation of the particulars, with 
which we might be furnifhed; and that this he fhould 
tranfmit to his Court, as a certificate of having performed 
his duty. I fhall leave (he continued) to the two Courts, all 
farther acknowledgments; hut cannot conlent to accept any 
thing of the kind alluded to. 
When this matter was adjufted, he began to inquire about 
our private wants; faying, he fhould confider himfelf as ill 
ufed, if we had any dealings with the merchants, or applied 
to any other perfon except himfelf. 
In return for fuch lingular generality, we had little to 
beftow hut our admiration and our thanks. Fortunately, 
however, Captain Clerke had fent by me a fet of prints and 
maps, belonging to the lad; voyage of Captain Cook, which 
he delired me to prefent in his name to the Commander; 
who being an enthufiafl in every thing relating to difcove- 
ries, received it with a fatisfadlion which fhewed, that, 
though a trifle, nothing could have been more acceptable. 
Captain Clerke had likewife intruded me with a difcretion- 
ary power of fhewing him a chart of the difcoveries made 
in the prefent voyage ; and as I judged, that a perfon in his 
lltuation, and of his turn of mind, would be exceedingly 
gratified by a communication of this fort, though, out of 
delicacy, he had forborn to afk more than a few general 
queflions on the fubjedt, I made no fcruple to repofe in him 
a confidence, of which his whole condudt fhewed him to be 
defer ving. 
I had the pleafure to find, that he felt this compliment 
as I hoped he would, and was much ftruck at feeing, in one 
view, 
