THE PELEW ISLANDS. 
morning. All the way they went appeared to be equally 
well cultivated as what they had feen before, and rather 
fuller of inhabitants. Wherever they palled they obferved 
the lower rank of women employed in looking after the 
plantations of yams, which are generally in fwampy ground. 
They obferved the women were alfo employed in making 
mats and balkets, dreffing victuals, and nurling their chil¬ 
dren ; the men were found bulled in gathering cocoa-nuts, 
hewing trees, and making fpears and darts. 
The weather hill bad, Captain Wilson went down to the 
wharf, before fun-rife, to look after his boat, and returned 
to breakfalt with Raa Kook. At noon he accompanied the 
King to his boat-builders, where Abba Thulle wanted to 
give directions about fome work that was carrying on for 
him there; he had taken down with him a delign of his 
own for ornamenting fome canoes then building, and this 
delign was marked on a board with great accuracy, in dif¬ 
ferent colours, to work after. At this place our people 
dined with the King upon pigeons. 
The rain fell in torrents all the night, accompanied with 
very loud thunder. The Englijh had removed to another of 
the King’s houfes, in order to be retired, having been dif- 
turbed by the curiolity of the natives, whilft they remained 
in the habitation which had been firft afligned them. 
The King and his brother Raa Kook made our people a 
vilit 
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1783. 
SEPTEMBER. 
Wednefday 
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