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AN ACCOUNT OF 
1783. 
AVGUST. 
Sentiments nearly limilar have imprefled the minds of 
all people who live fecluded from an acquaintance with 
mankind, whenever accident or curioiity has carried the in¬ 
habitants of remote parts of the globe to vifit their unfre¬ 
quented regions. But the natives of Pelew, who, as far 
as one is authorized to judge, not conceiving the globe 
as extending beyond the horizon that bounded them, had 
none but the ideas of nature to guide them; they had feen no 
other people to difturb their limplicity, whatever they were 
fhewn they confidered and examined as ufeful; they looked 
up with admiration to the people who could with fo little 
trouble produce effedis, which they had never difcovered; 
and to their admiration they added a reverential efteem, as 
poifeffing talents they never could attain themfelves ; of 
which we fhall, in the courfe of this narrative, give fome 
extraordinary proofs. 
Arra Kooker could by no means reliih the wearing 
of trowfers, but he had conceived a paffion to have a 
white fhirt, and one was immediately given him, which he 
had no fooner put on than he began to dance and jump 
about with fo much joy, that all were diverted by his ridi¬ 
culous geftures, and the contraft which, the linen formed 
with his fkin. This Prince appeared to be verging towards 
forty ; he was in feature fhort, but fo plump and fat that he 
was aim oft as broad as he was long ; he poffeffed an abun¬ 
dant fhare of gc ad-humour, and a wonderful turn for mi- 
mickry $ 
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