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with the advantages he had already gained by the friend- 
fhip of his new allies, feemed defirous to profit by their aid, 
and avenge himfelf of all his enemies.— Captain Wilson 
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thought this a favourable opportunity to mention to the 
General fuch things as he conceived he had a right to com¬ 
plain of; firfl, refpedting the coolnefs with which they had 
gone away on the laft expedition to Artingall, and 
fhewed him an empty cartouch-box, to let him fee how 
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much he was in want of that paper which fome of the 
canoes had carried off from the fhip.—He alfo complained 
that it had been fuggefted to his people when at Pelew, 
by the Malay, that whenever the King appeared, the fame 
external marks of homage were expected from them as 
were paid him by his own fubjedts, and that this was a 
matter which had much difturbed the EngliJJj ; he likewife 
informed the General, that the Englijh could never con- 
fent to go again to war with his brother, if he meant to put 
their prifoners to death, as it was contrary to the nature and 
cuftom of their nation to hurt any who had fubmitted to 
their power; and finifhed, by adding a word or two on 
the fubjedt of one of the fix-pounders having been carried 
away from the fhip, and exprefling an apprehenfion that 
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fome mifunderftanding muft have arifen, by their fending 
our people home without any of the Chiefs or Rupacks to 
accompany them, by which inattention his brother with 
another 
