THE PELEW ISLAND S. 
Thomas Dulton his fervant, and the linguifh—After they 
had got out of the harbour they waited fome time for the 
canoes, which had been filhing.—'The General fent a turtle 
and feme fifli to the tents, and took the red to Pelew, where 
they arrived about ten o’clock at night; the King had been 
gone an hour before to the great illand called Emungs, 
where thefe Rupacks lived, but had left his eldeft fon, Qui 
Bill, to receive Captain Wilson and go forward with him. 
—Raa Kook afked the Captain if he liked to follow his bro¬ 
ther; but he declined going any further till morning, feeling 
himfelf indifpoled. 
About feven o’clock the next morning they embarked in 
Raa Kook’s canoe; the General w r as accompanied by two 
of his wives, having eleven men to paddle, and taking with 
them provilion for the day; they went to the northward 
about ten or twelve leagues, and about noon Were off the 
mouth of a rivulet that ran up into the illand of Emungs, 
where Abba Thulle then was.— Raa Kook here orna¬ 
mented his canoe with fhells, and founded his conch, to 
give notice of his arrival. 
This rivulet was both narrow and (hallow, its lides full 
of mangrove trees, which in feveral places were cut away to 
make a free paffage for the canoes to pafs up and down.— 
In their paffage to get into the rivulet or creek, they were 
frequently in danger of being a-ground, which the natives 
feemed much to fear, on account of the (harp coralfflones 
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1783- 
OCTOBER 
Thurfday 9 
