THE PELEW ISLANDS. 
tinel would, or dared fuffer any one to touch his arms.—Upon 
this the King feemed fatisfied, and went on to view other 
things in and about the cove. Raa Kook would now fhow 
his brother the kitchen, which was in the hollow of a rock, 
a little above the cove. It was the time when the cook 
was preparing dinner; the implements which furnifhed the 
kitchen were fcanty indeed, and could in no other place but 
this have attracted any one’s attention ; but here an iron pot, 
a tea-kettle, a tin faucepan, with a poker, a pair of tongs, 
and frying-pan, became, from their peculiar fituation, of 
fufficient confequence to excite admiration; nor were the 
bellows now forgotten by the General (of which fome men¬ 
tion has before been made) who taking them up, as he ex¬ 
plained their ufe to the King, feemed ambitious to let his bro¬ 
ther fee what an adept he was, and began to blow the fire. The 
bald cook, who was always clofe fhaved, and never wore 
any thing on his head, and was befide a little meagre fel¬ 
low, was alfo pointed out by him for the King’s notice; for 
the General’s vein of humour, as well as his wifh of infor¬ 
mation, made him attentive even to the moft trivial circum- 
fiances. 
He was alfo taken to fee the two dogs, which he was 
flruck and delighted with in full as great a degree as his 
brother Arra Kooker had been before. But thefe ani¬ 
mals, whole novelty equally imprelTed all the natives, ex- 
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