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44 When we got to Artingall no canoes were feen, though 
44 the ufual previous notice had been lent of our coming to 
44 attack them,—The Pelew people being unable to provoke 
44 the appearance of the enemy, landed, and went a little way 
44 up from the feahhore. Raa Kook now took the command, 
44 and conduced the troops; the King remaining in his 
44 canoe, and occafionally difpatching the Frigate canoes with 
44 orders to him and Arra Kooker.— We were entreated 
44 not to land ; we however, perceiving that the enemy 
u were beginning to defend themfelves, jumped on fliore to 
44 afiid: our friends, and bedeged fome houfes poffeffed by 
44 the enemy.—The fwivel, which had been fixed in a canoe 
44 which the natives had prepared for the purpofe, with great 
44 ingenuity and judgment, played conflantly on the houfes 
44 which were filled with people; our mufquetry covering 
44 the Pelew people, foon diilodged the enemy, and one of 
44 the houfes was by fome accident prefently in flames.—We 
44 were often greatly annoyed by the enemy, who rufhed 
44 down on us with a fliower of fpears; in return, whenever 
44 we perceived them coming, a bride fire was kept up, which 
44 not only difperfed them immediately, but in all probability 
44 rnufl have killed a condderable number of them.—A rra 
44 Kooker, who had gone further than any other in purfuit of 
44 the enemy, afeending a hill in fight of the canoes, and ob- 
u ferving one of the Artingall people coming down, flept 
unnoticed 
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