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1783. cited them to take fo much pleafure in making them bark* 
august. 
that our people were after fome time compelled to confine 
them out of light. 
Near to the kitchen was another hollow rock, where 
were fufpended the hams which had been faved from the 
fhip, under which fires had been made, in order to fmoke- 
dry them for future fea-ftore. Raa Kook was now fo fa¬ 
miliarized to our people’s methods, that he informed the 
King this was fome of their provifion ; he wifhed that one 
of them fhould be offered his brother, which was immedi¬ 
ately prefented, and accepted, as was alfo a live goofe; 
four or five (the remains of the live flock) juft at that mo¬ 
ment waddling in fight. 
The King being now returned to his former feat, in¬ 
formed Captain Wilson that he intended to go and fleep 
at the back of the illand; and prefently a loud fhriek 
was given by one of the King’s officers, who wore a thin 
narrow bone on his wrift, which was afterwards known to 
be an Order much inferior to what we have fpoken of be¬ 
fore. This, at the moment it was hggrd, threw our people 
into fome alarm, but the caufe of it was immediately evi¬ 
dent, for all the King’s attendants, whom it was conceived 
amounted at leaft to three hundred, though all differ¬ 
ently difperfed, and engaged in looking about at every 
thing that attracted them, as if inftantaneoufly moved by 
the 
