THE PELEW ISLANDS. 
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up very handily, for they had all been unrolled before to 
dry. During the time that they were rolling up the rib¬ 
bands, our people obferved, by the geftures and looks of 
the natives, that each Chief fixed his attention upon fome 
particular perfon ; this at the time alarmed them, appre¬ 
hending that the individual each Chief had particularly 
noticed, was fingled out as his devoted prifoner; but they 
loon afterwards found the meaning to be quite contrary, 
and that the individual fo feledted was to be that Chief’s 
particular friend or guefl. — Captain Wilson then intro¬ 
duced his Chief Mate to the King, as the firft officer under 
him, whom Abba Thulle ffiled the * Kickary Rupack, 
conceiving at that time that Captain Wilson was him- 
felf a prince of fome country; but being afterwards 
informed by the Malay , that he ferved under a far 
greater power at home, and was no fovereign, but a Cap¬ 
tain^ he feized the diftindtion inftantly, and ever after 
addreffied him by the appellation of Captain, and his Chief 
Mate, by that of Kickaray Captain, as fecond in command. 
The reft of the officers were next introduced, and Mr. 
Sharp, the furgeon, was pointed out as the gentleman 
of whom he had fpoken when in the King’s canoe, who 
cured the difeafes which any of his people were afflidted 
with, at which the King feemed wonderfully furprized, 
and kept his eyes fixed on him. Laftly, all the private 
* Kickaray means little .^See the annexed Vocabulary, 
I „ men 
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AUGUST. 
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