THE PE LEW ISLANDS, 
CHAPTER XV. 
The Men who had been on the third Expedition to Art ingall 
return—an Account of it given.—Captain Wilson invited 
by the King to vijit the Rupacks, who had attended as Allies 
in the lafl Battle.—Accompanies the King and his Brother to 
fome IJlands to the Northward , where there was much Fef- 
tivity on the Qccafion.—Is received with great Hofpitality , 
and after five Days Abfence returns to Oroolong. 
BOUT eleven o’clock in the forenoon all the warri- 
x ** ors returned to Oroolong, perfectly well, in high 
fpirits, and greatly pleafed with the treatment they had re¬ 
ceived from their Pelew friends.—R aa Kook accompanied 
them, with four canoes, bringing fome yams, and two jars 
of moloifes. 
With refpeft to the third expedition, I fhali purfue the 
fame method as I did in the defeription of the fecond battle 
of Artingall, and deliver the particulars of it as I myfelf 
received them from Mr. M. Wilson, who was prefent at 
it, and which particulars were fully confirmed by every re¬ 
port of the tranfadtion to the Captain. 
i( The outfet of this bufinefs was nearly the fame as in 
** the fecond expedition, though the number of canoes 
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