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1783. before the reader, I fhall here paufe awhile, as the narrator 
SEPTEMBER, 
of thefe events, and deliver the account of this expedition 
nearly in the words in which I received it from Mr. M. 
Wilson, who was himfelf an a£lor in the whole bulinefs. 
44 The night we quitted Oroolong we got to Pelew, 
44 and the King was deftrous of proceeding immediately on 
44 his way to Art ingall ; but it proving very wet, we ob- 
44 jelled to it, on account of the rain damaging our arms, 
44 which he being made fenfible of, agreed to defer advan- 
44 cing till the enfuing evening. We were conduced to the 
44 fame houfe where my brother and Mr. Sharp had been 
a before entertained, and where we were fupplied with 
44 every accommodation that we could expedl, or defire. 
64 On the evening of the next day we all affembled on 
44 the caufeway, or wharf, where alfo were the King, Raa 
44 Kook, Arra Kooker, and the other Rupacks and great 
44 officers; and we all went on board the canoes ftationed 
44 there to receive us. We were followed to the fliore by a 
44 number of old men, women, and children, who appeared 
44 to be drawn together both by curiofity and intereft. 
44 When the canoes were quitting the land, a conch-fhell 
44 was loudly founded, to notify our departure; and other 
44 canoes difpatched to different parts of the ifiand, to colle£t 
44 various detachments which were lying oft in creeks and 
44 remoter places, and only waited the King’s fignal to 
44 join 
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