73 
A VOYAGE TO 
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September. 
Spaniards to Lima. I never faw him afterward; which I 
rather wondered at, as I had received him with uncommon 
civility. I believe, however, that Omai had kept him at a 
dilfance from me, by fome rough ufage; jealous, that there 
fhould be another traveller upon the iiland, who might vie 
with himfelf. Our touching at Teneriffe was a fortunate 
circumftance for Omai; as he prided himfelf in having 
vilited a place belonging to Spain, as well as this man. I 
did not meet with the other, who had returned from 
Lima \ hut Captain Clerke, who had feen him, fpoke of 
him as a low fellow, and as a little out of his fenfes. His 
own countrymen, I found, agreed in the fame account of 
him. In fhort, thefe two adventurers feemed to be held 
in no efteem. They had not, indeed, been fo fortunate as 
to return home with fuch valuable acquifitions of pro¬ 
perty, as we had bellowed upon Omai; and, with the ad¬ 
vantages he reaped from his voyage to England, it muft 
he his own fault, if he fhould link into the fame Hate of 
infignificance* 
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