THE PE LEW ISLANDS. 
The King came in the forenoon of the following day 
for the men he had been promifed ; Captain Wilson, 
on offering to make one of the number, was refufed by 
his own people, who declared that he muft not expofe 
himfelf, as all their fafeties depended on him. Every 
one of the Englijh expreffed a readinefs to go, but the 
five following being young men, and requefting their 
comrades with particular earneftnefs to be the firft upon 
the lift, were thofe who were appointed, viz. Mr. Cum- 
ming, the third mate, Nicholas Tyacke, James Blu¬ 
ett, Madan Blanchard, and Thomas Dulton ; they 
alfo took with them Tom Rose as their interpreter; the 
King and the Chiefs taking each, one of them in their 
canoes ; our men being dreffed in blue jackets, cocked 
hats, with light blue cockades, and properly prepared with 
arms and ammunition. The King made but a fhort ftay; he 
faid he fhould leave four of his own men with our people, 
that they were fuch as might be trufted, that the expedition 
would be over in four days, and that all imaginable care 
fhould be taken of the men whom he carried away. He 
went away in great friendfhip, fhaking all the Englijh by 
the hand. Our people accompanied their companions, when 
they departed, to the water edge, and as they moved from 
the fhore in the cove, gave them three cheers, the firft of 
which was only returned by the Engljh ; but the linguift 
giving Abba Thulle to underftand that this acclamation 
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