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THE PELEW ISLANDS. 
After breakfaft Captain Wilson went out in the jolly- 
boat, to found and examine the reef himfelf. He found a 
paffage, in which there were three fathom at low-water, 
due weft: from the ifland. Between the ifland and the 
reef he found a flat fand-bank, upon which there were 
only feven feet at low-water; it was clear fand, except a 
few coral fpots, which were eafily difcovered by the colour 
of the water. 
In the afternoon the King paid our people a vifit, at¬ 
tended by his two brothers, the Chief Minifter y and 
feveral of his other Chiefs, and brought them fome fine 
fifti, that his canoes had caught in nets, which they make 
very nicely. Thefe fifti differed much from any kind our 
people had hitherto feen, they were rather more than three 
feet in length, and near a foot acrofs, having a very bony 
and thick head; the bone was fo uncommonly hard, as to 
ftrike fire when they fplit it with an axe, in order to ftew 
it. The meat cut folid and firm, like a large cod; and 
the fcales were round, near the fize of a Spanijh dollar % 
the natives prize it much, and our people found it, when 
boiled, very good. They had only caught four, two of 
which were given to the Englijh , and by the fliip’s fteward 
divided into meffes. The Chinefe dreffed their portion dif¬ 
ferently, making a mixture with rice, and other things, 
which they call Chow Chow . 
R 2 The 
1783. 
SEPTEMBER. Q 
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