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through their exercife before they parted for their refpec- 
tive polls, each man having a mufquet and cartouch-box, 
&c.; and indeed all the men on board the Antelope, from 
the time that the veffel quitted England, were fo con- 
llantly kept in the exercife of fmall arms, that they were 
fufliciently expert to have made a refpe6lable appearance ; 
and on the people before whom they now fhewed them-' 
felves, their fkill and readinefs mult have made a formi¬ 
dable impreflion. The novelty of the fight had forcibly 
worked on the imaginations of their new friends. —Arra 
Kooker having lent a molt Heady attention to the explana¬ 
tion that had been given of the ufe of thefe military wea¬ 
pons (about which he had probably been talking with his 
brother the General) feemed as if fome fudden thought had 
at the moment flatted in his mind, calling out eagerly to 
Raa Kook, in thefe words, Englees mora (or go) Artin- 
gall, Pel’le, lew, pointing to the northward and fouth- 
ward; then cried Poo , imitating the found which our guns 
had been reprefented to him to make when fired. They re¬ 
turned to the tents where they were to fleep, and appeared 
to be quite at eafe and contented. — They kept conver- 
fing together a great part of the night; and the buflnefs of 
this evening proved a very favourable circumflance, as from 
that time they feemed to confider the EngliJJj as poffeffing 
fuch power and abilities as they could have no conception 
of before. 
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