THE PELEW ISLANDS. 
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whom he expected to have found there. Soon after twenty- *7 8 3- 
OCTOBER. 
one Rupacks appeared, who were entire Grangers to Mr. 
Sharp, but who had aflifted Abba Thulle in his laft expe¬ 
dition ; Raa Kook defired Mr. Sharp and the boatfwain to 
go into the canoe hr ft) And a good deal of ceremony palled 
among the Rupacks*, to fettle who fhould go in the laft.—-No 
kind of intimation was given whither they were going, how¬ 
ever it was foon perceived that they were directing their courfe 
to the little iiland oppohte to Pelew, about three or four miles 
diftant from it, and where they had hopped when they firh 
accompanied the General from Oroolong. On landing, he 
took them a little v r ay up the country, where there was a 
fquare pavement, furrounded by four or five houfes, which 
appeared to be uninhabited, as no people were moving about, 
and the grafs was growing between the hones of the pave¬ 
ment. After being feated, Raa Kook difpatched one of 
his attendants on a mehage, Mr. Sharp and the boatfwain 
remaining Grangers to the purport of this invitation.—Our 
Surgeon, who had before fhewn his wattch to Raa Kook, 
and fully explained to him its utility and defign, perceiving 
they were all very hlent and grave, and recolledling how 
much this little machine had entertained the General’s cu- 
riohty, pulled it out again, and put it into his hands, that 
he might fhew it to the Rupacks , and communicate to them 
how exa&ly the Rnglijh were able, by it, to meafure the 
divifion and laple of time ; they appeared to be all wonder- 
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