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AN ACCOUNT OF 
1783. this mode of the King’s receiving the Englifh was fomething 
SEPTEMBER. 
the Malay had put into his head, and which the King proba¬ 
bly found fo clumfy and foolifh that he never adopted it 
again.—They had boiled fifh and yams placed before them; 
and during breakfaft the King {hewed Captain Wilson a 
large piece of chintz, which the Malay had faved when he 
was wrecked, and had given him.—He feemed to admire it 
much, and when it had been looked at, he folded it up again 
very nicely in a mat; having only produced it as being to 
him a great curiofity. 
During the time of breakfaft the King talked much with 
the Malay , who after it was over told Mr. Sharp that Abba 
Thulle wifhed he would go a little way into the country, 
without declaring for what purpofe.—Mr. Sharp hefitated, 
till Mr. Devis offered to accompany him; the King faid a 
perfon would prefently be there to conduct them, who, when 
he came, appeared to be one of the Rupacks who had been 
with them at Oroolong at the King’s firft coming, when 
they individually fixed their notice on fome one of our peo¬ 
ple ; a circumftance which then occafioned fome alarm, as 
has before been mentioned *. And this Chief proved to be 
the perfon who had particularly noticed Mr. Sharp as his 
friend or Sucalic (a term the natives gave it.) 
Mr. Sharp and Mr. Devis, accompanied by the inter¬ 
preter, put themfelves cheerfully under the guidance of 
* See page 57. 
this 
