9$ 
1 7%Z‘ 
AUGUST. 
Tuefday 26. 
AN ACCOUNT OF 
they ftaid the night, and after a paffage this morning of five 
hours, rejoined their fhipmates, to the mutual fatisfadlion 
of all. 
The Arrack having been found during the time our coun¬ 
trymen had been abfent, at their return they were ferved 
the liquor due to thfem, in the proportion that it had been 
ufed at the tents in their abfence, which they invited their 
comrades to partake of in the evening, and this, with the 
yams and cocoa-nuts they brought, made a feaft.—Thofe 
who had been abfent were exceedingly rejoiced to fee the har¬ 
bour and tents put in a ftate of defence; but, above all, at 
the progrefs in the veffel, wherein all the future hopes of 
every individual were already in imagination embarked. 
At day-break the boatfwain, as ufual, piped all out to- 
their feparate departments; and thofe who had been at the 
war, having depofited with the gunner their military wea¬ 
pons, moft willingly joined in the convention which had 
been made in their abfence, and entered on their different 
talks. 
Raa Kook having informed Captain Wilson the prece¬ 
ding night, that bis brother, Abba Thulle, had given to 
him, for the Englijh , the ifland he was then on, the name of 
which they had not heard before, but now learnt it was 
called Oroolong ; after breakfaft, Captain Wixson, in tef- 
timony of the King’s donation, hoifted the BritiJlj pendant, 
and fired three vollies of fmall arms, in token of their tak¬ 
ing 
