By Bernadette H. Carreon
Horizon news staff

United Nations Fellow at Oxford University Marvin Ngirutang and Lebuu Littler will raise money to fund renovation of Prince Lee Boo’s tomb in St. Mary’s Church in England.
Ngirutang said the tomb’s condition which he recently visited while he was in London was already in bad shape.
He said that the money to be raised will be donated to St. Mary’s Church where Prince Lee Boo’s tomb is located.
He said the tomb’s paint is already chipped off and the text already unreadable.
Littler is the son of Bilung Gloria Salii and Carlos Salii.
Ngirutang said that the tomb’s renovation will renew the historical ties between Palau and England.
According to the Internet , Lee Boo’s tale begun with the shipwreck of Captain Wilson, who made a virtue of this calamity to an extent that he greatly impressed the natives of Palu Islands with his inventiveness and resourcefulness. Captain Wilson’s crew helped Abba Thulle, Lee Boo’s father and chief of the islands, to defeat his old enemies with European firearms. When his English guests had built a new ship and were on the point of returning to Europe, Abba Thulle spontaneously asked them to take his second son, Lee Boo, with them so that he could learn the English technological and cultural skills.
In mid-December of 1784 , it was discovered that Lee Boo had a smallpox.
He died in Dec. 27 and he was buried at St.Mary’s Church.