THE PE LEW ISLANDS. 
flew from under the flroke of the hammer.—Every thing, 
under fuch circumftances as the prefent, naturally excited 
wonder. When the iron was beaten on the anvil till the 
rednefs was gone off, and it was become too cold to be 
malleable, they could not comprehend why it was again 
put into the forge.—The throwing water on the fire to make it 
burn brifker was alfo a new fource of furprize; and it was 
with much difficulty they could be drawn away from a fcene 
that was fo new and interefting to them; however, the noife 
of the neighbouring Cooper, who was repairing the water- 
calks for fea ftore, was attracting enough to allure them to his 
hut_The agility with which they faw this man work, the 
whirling of the calks, the knocking down of the hoops, the 
found from within, and the quicknefs with which they per¬ 
ceived a defective calk was brought round and perfect,, 
feemed altogether to impofe on their minds a kind of ma¬ 
gic influence. They Hood and flared at one another with 
looks equally expreffive of aftonifhment and pleafure. 
Captain Wilson perceiving that his vilitors were rivetted to 
whatever they faw, and that the workmen were very much 
impeded by their queflions, as well as by their delire of 
handling every thing, now ordered a large canvafs to be 
fpread on one lide of the cove, where the King and his 
Chiefs might repofe and refrelh themfelves, and flill have 
a view of our artificers at a diftance; he was conducting 
them ^ 
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