I 
THE PELEW ISLANDS. 
this Rupack , whofe name was Arra Zook; they had 
not proceeded far, after getting off the caufeway, be¬ 
fore they met with Captain Wilson’s fervant, who was 
jftraggiing about with his gun to kill fome fowl for dinner. 
The Rupack made flgns to him to join company, which he 
did, on being informed by Mr. Sharp that he was going 
where the King had fent him. As they went over the hills, 
they palTed feveral pleafant villages, and a valley beauti¬ 
fully cultivated with plantations of cocoa-nuts and yams, 
forming from the fummit a moft rich and delicious prof- 
pedt. When they had got nearly three miles from Pelew, 
the heat was fo oppreffive, that Mr. Sharp and his compa¬ 
nions expreffed an inclination to return back; but the dis¬ 
appointment which appeared in the countenance of the 
Rupack who had conducted them, made both gentlemen 
judge it advifeable not to crofs his wifhes.—-They therefore 
proceeded about a mile and a half further, when they ar¬ 
rived at a plantation, at the end of which flood his houfe. 
He folicited them to enter, when various refrefhments were 
placed before them. He then introduced his wife and his 
children; and fliewed Mr. Sharp a child that was afflidted 
with fome bad ulcers, from a kind of boils, a diforder 
which he faid was common to the people there; and in¬ 
formed Mr. Sharp what applications he had himfelf ufed to 
his child, which were chiefly fomentations, made with cer¬ 
tain leaves; and that occaflonally, after the inflammatory 
fymptoms 
in 
1783- 
SEPTEMBER. 
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