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A N A G G O U N T O F 
1783. 
OCTOBER. 
See plate IV. 
fig. 2. 
AND 
Plate III. 
fig. x. 
holding them up between his fore-finger and thumb, made 
a fliort fpeech, and with a loud voice called out the perfon’s 
name for whom they were defigned, and immediately ran 
and gave them to him, and then returned in a flow pace to 
the old R.upack for the next, which was prefented in the 
fame manner .“-Captain Wilson remained in the houfe 
obferving the ceremony, till the linguift was fent to him, 
■when he went out, and was directed to a feat near to his 
friend Raa Kook, and foon after two tortoife-fhell fpoons, 
and a firing of red beads, which w T ere made from a coarfe 
fpecies of cornelian, were brought forward, which the be¬ 
fore-mentioned officer holding up, called out Englees , and 
inftantly ran and prefented them to the Captain.—A bb a 
Thulle’s beads, which were of glafs *, were given to Raa 
Kook, who perfonated the King on this occafion. 
There certainly appears, from what has been faid, to 
have been fome etiquette, not properly underftood by our 
people, in Abba Thulle’s retiring whilfi the old Rupack 
was diftributing his favours.—There was realbn to fuppofe, 
that if their rank was the fame, yet the ceremonials of 
* The beads firft fpoken of were of their own making, being a kind of coloured earth 
baked : they made them alfo at Pelew, but our people had never any opportunity of 
feeing how they were manufactured.-—'They alfo confidered as beads the glafs ones 
laft mentioned, being only bits of broken glafs, which they had the art of drilling 5 
fome beads they faw of this kind were made of green and white glafs, being finall 
pieces of broken bottles which had been got out of the Antelope. 
their 
