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i 7 8 3 * hatchet on his fhoulder, the head of which was made of iron* 
AUGUST. 
a circumftance which much furprized our people, as all the 
other hatchets they had feen were of fhell; the handle 
being formed in a ffiarp angle, fuck clofe to the fhoulder, 
lying before and behind, and wanted no tying to keep it 
heady in walking. The King, on landing, looked about with 
the fame kind of caution as his brothers, and thofe who 
came with them, had before done, on their firff vifit. Raa 
Kook met him on the fhore, and, as he declined going into 
the tents, the Englijh fpread a fail for him to lit on, which 
he did, and clearly took and underflood it as a mark of re- 
fpedl; the Chief Minifter placing himfelf oppofite to him, 
at the extremity of the canvafs, whilft his two brothers, 
Raa Kook and Arra Kooker, fat on each lide, at the ex¬ 
tent alfo of the fail, forming, when thus arranged, a fquare. 
The principal chiefs and officers of fate who accompanied 
him, feated themfelves near; and behind thefe chiefs the 
large retinue of his own people, which filled his train, being 
about three hundred, formed a circle, not Handing but fquat- 
ting, in a pofition ready to rife up in an infant.—Some tea 
was made, and offered him; he drank one cup, but did not 
feem to relifh it. After fitting a little while, he was prefented 
with a remnant of fcarlet cloth, and half a piece of long- 
cloth ; and alfo had fome ribbands of different colours given 
to him, to difribute among his attendants ; which he 
did immediately, and they, on receiving them, rolled them 
up 
