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their perfonal interview might not be fufficiently fettled, 
fo as to admit of their meeting on terms of equal dignity 
on both fides. Therefore the King of Pelew, though actu¬ 
ally prefent, was only prefumed to be fo in the perfon of 
his brother the General; who, as appears before, anfwered 
for him, and in his name received that tefiimony of refpeCt 
with which one fovereign was pleafed to greet another. 
When the old Rupack had diftributed all his favours, a 
general converfation took place among the Chiefs, which 
continued for about an hour; after which the old Chief 
was put on his board, and carried back in the fame manner 
he had been brought to the fquare. Filh, yams, and other 
refrefhments were then given to the attendants of Abba 
Thulle and the other Rupacks .—-The evening was palled 
in the great houfe, as before. 
In confequence of Captain Wilson having requefted to 
return to Oroolong, the conch-fhell was founded at day¬ 
light, and the canoes got in readinefs for departure. At 
eight o’clock they all went to the houfe where they firft 
landed, and here, before they embarked, Raa Kook ex- 
prelfed a wifh to fire a mufquet; but having no idea of 
the fhock it would occafion, and holding it loofe, it ftruck 
his fhoulder with fuch force as threw him backwards, and 
it fell from his hands. He expreffed much furprize that 
the Engli/h could do this with fo much eafe, and that he 
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1783. 
OCTOBER, 
Sunday il. 
was 
