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AN ACCOUNT OF 
1783- 
SEPTEMBER. 
Thurfday 4. 
Friday 5. 
vifit at day-break; the weather after breakfafl clearing tip, 
they informed the King they wifhed to return to Oroq- 
long, to which he affented, though wifhing rather to de¬ 
tain them another day. They found the jolly-boat ready 
loaded for them with every kind of provifion the illand 
afforded; and about two o’clock in the afternoon they left 
Pelew, highly fatisfied with the kindnefs of their new 
friends, giving them three cheers, as ufual, at parting; 
which was returned by the King in perfon, who in this in- 
ftance put off his gravity, and laughed very much, joining 
the men, women, and children in their cheers, Handing 
up, and apart in fuch a manner as to make himfelf con- 
fpicuous. 
Our people arrived fafe at the tents about nine o’clock, 
though the wind had been adverfe to them; and had the 
pleafure of finding all their companions well. 
The next morning being fine, they put out their clothes, 
and the few neceffaries which had been faved from the 
wreck, to dry, having been much wetted by the late heavy 
rains. Captain Wilson, on coming back, had the fatisfa£tion 
to fee that all his people, in his abfence, had been going on 
very afliduoufly with the veffel, and that the molt perfefl 
harmony had fubfifted amongft them. This was a circum- 
ftance which could not fail to hold out the happieft prefages, 
that they fhould in the end accomplifh that point to which 
their 
