297 307 Not that like children Billy was
incapable of conciving what death
really is. No, but he was wholly
without irrational fear of it, a fear
more prevalent among in
highly civilized communities than those so-called
70 barberous barbarous ones which in all respects stand
nearer to primitive unadulterate Nature. And, as
elsewhere said, a barbarian Billy
radically was; as much so, for all
the costume, as his countrymen the
British captives, who living trophies,
made to march thro' Rome in the
Roman triumph of Germanicus. Quite as
much so as those later barbarians,
young men probably, ^ and picked specimens among the
297 307 Not that like children Billy was
incapable of conciving what death
really is. No, but he was wholly
without irrational fear of it, a fear
more prevalent among in
highly civilized communities than those so-called
70 barberous barbarous ones which in all respects stand
nearer to primitive unadulterate Nature. And, as
elsewhere said, a barbarian Billy
radically was; as much so, for all
the costume, as his countrymen the
British captives, who living trophies,
made to march thro' Rome in the
Roman triumph of Germanicus. Quite as
much so as those later barbarians,
young men probably, ^ and picked specimens among the

Transcribed by: Christopher Ohge