THE PELEW ISLANDS. 
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them. In the prefent cafe it did not require the knowledge 
of their language to difcover the bufinefs they were on; as 
the houfe in which the Captain and his companions were, 
looked full on their council; and their geftures, as well as 
the frequent repetition of the w r ords Englees and Art in¬ 
gall, left our people no room to doubt but that they had 
been the fubjedt of their deliberation.—After the council 
broke up, the King, attended by the linguift, came to the 
houfe where the Englijh were, and requeued Captain Wil¬ 
son would permit ten of his men to go with him to battle* 
againft the fame enemy as before. Captain Wilson replied 
to the King nearly as he had done before, Ci that the Englijh 
i6 were his friends, and would regard thofe who were his 
“ enemies, as being enemies of their own.” This reply 
greatly pleafed the King. The Captain deliring to know 
the caufe of the war, Abba Thulle informed him, through 
the linguift, that fome time back, at a feftival at Art in¬ 
gall, one of his brothers, and two of his Chiefs, had been 
killed, and that the two iilands had been at w r ar ever lince ; 
the people of Artingall, fo far from making any fatif- 
fadtion, had protected the murderers. Captain Wilson in- 
treated that his people might not be detained at Pelew 
longer than was necelfary, as it would greatly retard the 
building of his veflel. The King anfwered, “ that he could 
“ not in decency fend them back the moment he had had their 
a fervices , but that he would keep them only .two or three 
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