attention to the whole reprefentation, of one of thofe ftupendous islands of as little Ickeuna: no fooner did the fwords begin to clash, in the fighting scene between Pofthumus and Iachimo, but he fet up a moft feeling scream. About a fortnight after our arrival in town, having provided greatcoats, boots, and hats for the men, in order that they might pafs through the ftreets unobserved, I took Attuiock with me and walked beyond the Tower. We there took boat, rowed up the river, and landed at Weltminfter-bridge, from whence we walked to Hyde Park corner, and then home again. I was in great expectation, that he would begin to relate the wonders which he had feen, the inftant he entered the room; but I found myself greatly difappointed. He immediately fat down by the fire-fide, placed both his hands on his knees, leaned his head forward, fixed his eyes on the ground in a ftupid ftare; and continued in that poflure for a confiderable time. At length, toffing up his head, and fixing his eyes on the ceiling, he broke out in the following foliloquy: "Oh! I am tired; here are too many houfes; too much fmoke; too many people; Labrador is very good; feals are plentiful there; I wish I was back again." By which I could plainly perceive, that the multiplicity, and variety of objects had confounded his ideas; which were too much confined to comprehend any thing but the inconveniencies that he had met with. And indeed, the longer they continued in England, the more was I convinced of the truth of that opinion: for their admiration increafed in proportion, as their ideas expanded; till at length they began more clearly to comprehend the ufe, beauty, and mechanifm of what they faw; though the greater part of these were as totally loft upon them, as they would have been upon one of the brute creation. Although they had often paffed St. Paul's without betraying any great aftonishment, or at leaft not fo much as all Europeans do at the first fight ice, which are daily to be seen near the eaft coaft of their own country, yet when I took them to the top of it, and convinced them that it was built by the hands of men, (a circumftance which had not entered the heads before, for they had fuppofed it a natural production) they were quite loft in amazement. The people below, they compared to mice; and infifted that it must at least be as high as Cape Charles, which is a mountain of confiderable altitude. Upon my afking them how they should defcribe it to their countrymen on their return, they replied, with a look of the utmost expreffion, they should neither mention it, nor many other things which they had feen, left they fhould be called liars, from the feeming impoffibility of fuch aftonishing facts. Walking along Piccadilly one day with the two men, I took them into a fhop to fhew them a collection of animals. We had no fooner entered than I obferved their attention riveted on a fmall monkey; and I could perceive horror most strongly depicted in their countenances. At length the old man turned to me and faltered out, "Is that an Efquimau?" I must confefs, that both the colour and contour of the countenance had confiderable refemblance to the people of their nation; but how they could conceive it poffible for an Efquimau to be reduced to that diminutive fize, I am wholly at a lofs to account for; unless they had fixed their attention on the countenance only, and had not adverted to any other particulars. On pointing out feveral other monkeys of different kinds, they were greatly diverted at the mistake which they had made; but were not well pleafed to obferve, that monkeys refembled their race much more than ours. The parrots, and other talkative birds, next attracted their notice. And it was a great treat to me, both then and at all other times, to observe their different emotions, much more forci bly bly expreffed in their countenances, than is poffible to be done by thofe, whole feelings are not equally genuine. Civilized nations imperceptibly contract an artificial expreffion of countenance, to help out their languid feelings; for knowledge, by a communication with the world and books, enlightens our ideas fo much, that they are not fo liable to be taken by furprife, as the uninformed mind of the favage, who never had the leaft hint given him, that certain things are in existence; confequently, they break upon them as unexpectedly, and forcibly, as the fun would do upon a man who was born deaf and blind, in cafe he fhould fuddenly be brought to fight on a clear day. Being on a dining vifit, with that excellent furgeon and anatomift, the ingenious John Hunter; in the afternoon Attuiock walked out of the room by himself, but prefently returned with fuch evident marks of terror, that we were all greatly alarmed, fearing fome accident had happened to him; or, that he had met with an infult from one of the fervants. He feized hold of my hand, and eagerly preffed me to go along with him. I asked the caufe of his emotion, but could get nothing more from him than "Come along, come along with me," and he haftily led me into a room in the yard, in which flood a glafs cafe containing many human bones. "Look there," fays he, with more horror and coniternation in his countenance, than I ever beheld in that of man before, "are thofe the bones of Efquimaux whom Mr. Hunter has killed and eaten? Are we to be killed? Will he eat us, and put our bones there?" As the whole company followed us, the other Indians had alfo taken the alarm before the old priest had finished his interrogatories; not did any of them feem more at ease, by the rest of us breaking out into a fudden and hearty laugh, till I explained to them that those were the bones of our own people, who had been executed for cerain crimes committed by them, and were preferved there, that Mr. Hunter might better know how to fet thofe of the living, in cafe any of them fhould chance to be broken; which often happened in fo populous a country. They were then perfectly fatiffied, and approved of the practice; but Attuiock's nerves had received too great a fhock to enable him to refume his ufual tranquility, till he found himself fafe in my houfe again. Paffing through Hyde-park in our way to Holland houfe, and obferving his majefty looking at the regiment of Old Buffs, which were theng ing to Plymouth, we got out of the coach and went up to the front; where F explained to them the ufe of that body of men, and of the evolutions wh ca they were performing. After his majety viewel the regiment collectively, the recruits were drawn out at a few paces diftant from the left flank, that he might examine them feparately. So great a crowd had gathered round us, as incommoded our view of the troops, and attracted the notice of the king, who then fent general Harvey to order me with the Indians, into the vacant space between the regiment and the recruits. Here his majesty rode flowly past them, and condefcended to falute them by taking off his hat, accompanied with a gracious fmile; honours which they were highly pleafed with, and often mentioned afterward with great exultation. Nor were they in the leaft difpleafed that his majefty did not speak to them; fince I had previously told them not to expect it; and they obferved that he fpoke to none but the commanding officer, and one or two of thofe who were in attendance. they had formerly feen; and which is almoft an entire collection of hills covered with thick woods. As they had never before feen any cultivated land (except a few fmall gardens, which they obferved were dug with a fpade) they formed an idea of our immenfe numbers, by being able to till fo much land and confume the produce of it in a year; exclufive of the animal food with which they faw cur tables and markets abounded. How the inhabitants of London were fupplied with food, I could never make them fully comprehend, any more than I could the number of people by which the metropolis was inhabited. Their arithmetic goes no higher than the number twenty-one; therefore, the best I could do, was to tell them, that a certain number of large whales would ferve them for one meal only. Nothing furprised them more, than to meet with a man who aflured them he could not fhoot, had never killed an animal, nor feen the fea in bis life. After my return to town, by his majefty's permiflion, I took them to court; where their dreffes and be. haviour made them greatly taken notice of. They were alfo at the houfes of feveral of the nobility and people of fashion; and I omitted nothing, which came within the compafs of my pocket, to make their tay in England agreeable, or to imprefs them with ideas of our riches and ftrength. The latter I thought highly neceflary, as they had often, when in Labrador, fpoken of our numbers with great contempt, and told me they were fo numerous, that they could cut off all the English with great eafe, if they thought proper to collect themfelves together; an opinion which could not fail to produce in me very unpleasant reflections. But they had not been long in London before they confeffed to me, that the Efquimaux were but as one, compared to the number of the English.' Having purchafed a brig of eighty tons, Mr. C. began to prepare for a fecond voyage. He was accompanied by Mrs. Selby, his houfekeeper, the Indians, Mr. John Williams a furgeon, whom he had engaged alfo to ferve in the capacity of a clerk, his wife, a maid fervant, a cooper, two apprentice boys, a brace of greyhounds, a terrier, and fome tame rabbits. The pleafing profpects which he had indulged were of a fort duration. On the evening of the 13th of May, Caubvick, a female Indian, complained of great ficknefs at her ftomach, which daily grew worfe. At Lymington, her diforder was declared to be the fmallpox; and, as it was in vain to expect that the reft should escape the infection, preparative medic nes were accordingly given to them. On the 22d, Caubvick appeared to be out of danger. At the fame time, Ickcongoque, another Indian, began to ficken. On the 29th, fo dreadful a stench pervaded the whole veffel, that there feemed reason to apprehend that they would all be foon attacked with a peftilential fever. The Indians were all ill, and two of the hip's crew were already indif. pofed. Mr. C. therefore ordered the mafter to carry the veffel into Plymouth, although he forefaw that such a measure would prove an injury to his voyage. Having bargained for a houfe at two guineas and half per week, Mr. C. removed the Indians, and procured for them every medical affiftance which Plymouth afforded: yet, melancholy to relate! Caubvick alone recovered. On the 16th of July, Mr. C. failed for Labrador. The hair of the Indian woman being much matted with the fmallpox, it was by no means eafy to prevail on her to part with that which the regarded as a principal ornament: nor, when cut off, would any intreaties, nor reprefentations of the danger to which the would expofe her countrymen, induce her to throw it overboard. On the 31st of Auguft, they reached the coat of Labrador. The report of their arrival brought the three fouthernmost tribes of Elquimaux, amounting to about five hundred, to receive their long-expected friends, and to hear the wonderous ftories which they might have to relate. We fhall give an account of the affecting fcene of their difappointinent in the words of the author: I placed myfelf upon a rock near the water-fide, and Caubvick fat down a few paces behind me. We waited for the landing of the Indians with feelings very different from theirs; who were hurrying along with tumultuous joy at the thoughts of immediately meeting their relations and friends again. As the fhore would not permit them to land out of their boats, they brought them to their anchors at a distance off, and the men came in their kyacks, each bringing two other perfons, lying flat on their faces; one behind and the other before, on the top of the skin covering. On drawing.near the fhore, and perceiving only Caubvick and myself, their joy abated, and their countenances affumed a different aspect. Being landed, they fixed their eyes on Caubvick and me, in profound, gloomy filence. At length, with great per turbation and in faultering accents, they enquired, feparately, what was become of the reft; and were no fooner given to understand, by a filent, forrowful thake of my head, that they were no more, than they inftantly fet up fuch a yell, as I had never before heard. Many of them, but particularly the women, fnatched up ftones, and beat themfelves on the head and face till they became fhocking fpectacles; one pretty young girl (a fifter to the late two men) gave herself fo fevere a blow upon the cheek bone, that the bruifed and cut LETTERS OF SWIFT. T never lifhed. The originals are in the hands of a gentleman of Ireland, who has permitted this copy to be taken, The dean was thirty-one years of age, fecond letter was addressed to the fame gentleman, after an interval of thirtythree years; and in terms of unT2 abated Moore Park, Jan. 13, 1693. I am not likely to be fo pleafed with any thing again this good while, as I was with your letter of December 20th; and it has began to put me into a good opinion of my own meri's, or at least my kill at negociation, to find I have fo quickly restored a correfpondence that I feared was declining; as it requires more charms and addrefs in women to revive one fainting flame, than to kindle a dozen new ones. But I affure you, I was very far from imputing your filence to any bad caufe, (having never entertained one fingle ill thought of you in my life) but to a custom which breaks off commerce between abundance of people, after a long absence. At first ore omits writing for a little while, and then one stays a while longer to confider of excufes, and at laft it grows defperate, and one does not write at all. At this rate I have ferved others. and have been ferved myself. I wish I had a lexicon by me, to find whether your Greek word be pele and accented right, and am very fory you have made an acutum in wtima, as if you laid the greatest ftrefs upon the wort part of the word. However, I proteft against your meaning, or any interpretation you fhall ever make of that nature out of my letters: If I thought you deferved any bitter words, I thould either deliver them plainly, or hold my tongue altogether; for I efteem the custom of conveying one's refentments by hints or innuendos, to be a fign of malice or い fear, or of too little fincerity; but I have told you, coram et abfens, that you are in your nature more fenfible than you need be, and I find it is with reputation as with all other poffeffions, that thofe who have the greatest portion, are moft covetous of it.'Tis hard you cannot be fatisfied with the esteem of the best among your neightours, but lofe your time in regarding what may be thought of you by with you could as cafily make my one of my privacy and difiance. I efteem and friendship for you to be of any value, as you may be fure to command them. I fhould be forry if you have been at an inconvenience in haftening my accounts, and I dare refer you to my letters, that they will lay the fault upon yourfelf; for I think I defired more than once, that you would not make more difparch than flood with your eafe, because I was in no halte at all. I defired of you two or three times, that when you had fent me a catalogue of thofe few books, you would not fend them to Dublin, till you had heard again from me. The reason was, that I did believe there were one or two of them that might have been ufeful to you, and one or two more that were not worth the carriage. Of the latter fort, were an old mufty Horace, and Joley's book. Of_the former were Reynold's Works. Collection of Sermons in 4to. Stillingfleet's Grounds, &c. and the folio paper book, very good for fermons, or a receipt book for your wife, or to keep accounts of mutton, raifins, &c. The Sceptis Scient fica is not mine, but old Mr. Dobbs's; and I wish it were restored. He has a Temple's Mifcellanea inftead of it, which is a good book worth your reading. If Sceptis Scient fica comes to me, I'll burn it for a fuftian piece of abominable curious virtuofo fluff. The books miffing are few and inconfiderable, not worth troubling any body about. I hope this will come to your hands before you have fent your cargo, that you may keep thofe books you mention, and |