THE PE LEW ISLANDS. 
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one partook of this entertainment, and then proceeded; and 1783. 
Al'GUS 
reached the illand of Pelew about one o’clock in the af¬ 
ternoon. 
As Pelew came in light, the jolly-boat hoifted Englijft 
colours, and fired three mufquets; which were anfwered, as 
they approached nearer the fhore, by a white flag fluck on 
a pole; this was conceived to have been fuggefled by the 
Malay , and proved to be fome of the white cloth that had 
been given to the King. Raa Kook having quitted his 
canoe, came into the jolly-boat; and our people, on land¬ 
ing, fired three mufquets more, after having hoifted their 
colours, and fixed them in the ground oppolite a houfe 
clofe to the water-fide, at the end of the caufeway where 
they came on fhore ; to which houfe our people were con¬ 
duced by Raa Kook, to wait the King’s coming, he hav¬ 
ing difpatched a meffenger to notify the Captain’s ar¬ 
rival. 
Before the King appeared, fome of the natives were Pent 
down with refrefhments; they firft brought a large tureen, 
made of wood, in the fhape of a bird, and inlaid with 
fhell, this was full of fweet drink ; they alfo brought a 
painted ftand, about two feet in height, inlaid in the fame 
manner as the tureen, upon which were fweetmeats gar- 
nidied with Seville oranges; next came a bafket of boiled 
yams, followed by another of young cocoa-nuts; thefe 
were all placed in a kind of order, preparatory to the 
King’s 
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