384 PRINCE LEE B00,

hearing of his illness, repaired to his assistance, nor quitted the
captain's house till it was become the scene of death! However
much our suffering prince regretted the loss of the captain's
company, he could not but acqniesce in it, anxiously inquiring
from time to time concerning his health, full of dread lest he
should catch the disorder, as he still continued in the house.

“ Daring the progress of this grievous distemper, Lee Boo
maintained the utmost firmness of mind, and having the highest
opinion of Dr. Smyth, never refused to take anything adminis-
tered to him, when informed that he desired it. Hearing of an
indisposition which now happened to Mrs. Wilson, and confined
her to bed, Lee Boo instantly took alarm, exclaiming, ‘ What,
mother ill? Lee Boo get up to seeher!” He actually did so,
and would go to her apartment to be sure how she really was.
On the Thursday before his death, as he walked across the
room, he looked at himself in the glass, and finding his face much
swollen and disfigured, shook his head, and in seeming disgust
at his own appearance, turned away, telling Mr. Sharp that
his father and mother much grieve, for they knew he was very
sick,’ ‘This he several times repeated. In the evening, grow-
ing worse, he became sensible of his danger ; and taking Mr.
Sharp by the hand, and steadfastly fixing his eyes upon him, said
with great earnestness, ‘Good friend, when you go to Pelew,
tell Abba Thulle, that Lee Boo take much drink to make small-
pox go away, but he die—that the captainand mother (Mrs. Wil-
son) very kind—all English very good men—was much sorry he
could not speak to the king the number of fine things the English
hhad got.’ He then enumerated the presents which had been
made him, and expressed his wish that Mr. Sharp would dis-
tribute them, when he returned to Pelew, amongst the chiefs.
His faithful servant Tom Rose, who stood at the foot of his
bed, melted into tears at this melancholy scene: the agonised
master gently rebuked him for his weakness, saying, ‘Why