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1783. CHAPTER XL 
SEPTEMBER® 
Further Account of the Natives o/Pelew.— A Council of State 
is held , at the Breaking up of which the King requefls of 
Captain Wilson ten Men to go with him on a fecond Expe¬ 
dition againjl the fame Enemy—which is agreed to.—Defer ip- 
tion of the Dance of the Warriors.—Our People return to 
Oroolong, find their Countrymen well , and in great Una¬ 
nimity advancing the Veffel.—Fhe ten Men fele&ed who were 
to attend the King to Battle . 
Monday n 9 | ' HIS day a great council was held, in the forenoon, in 
the open air, on the large fquare pavement near the 
houfe allotted the Englifij. It conlifted of a number of 
Rupacks , or Chiefs, feated each on a fingle ftone, placed 
near the outer border of the pavement; that for the King* 
was more elevated than the reft ; and clofe to the fide of it 
was a ftone ftill higher, on which he occafionally refted his 
arm : when in their places, they are encircled by officers of 
inferior rank. They debate from ftde to fide, on whatever 
fubjeeft happens to be under difeuffion, and it was underftood 
that the plurality of opinions determined the matter before 
them. 
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