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AN ACCOUNT OF 
1783. by every mark of external refpecft paid to him, feemed to be 
OCTOBER. 
a perfon of confiderable confequence. 
Our people conceived the idea, that fome etiquette 
here alfo operated on the King of Pelew, as he would 
not himfelf go on fhore, but flayed in his canoe, though 
it was his with that all the reft of his company fhould 
land. They were here entertained with a dance, and 
treated with fome broiled pigeons, 8ec. They alfo were 
invited to, and moft kindly received at two or three pri¬ 
vate houfes. It was night before they got back to the 
canoes, and being dark, the people were fo hofpitable that 
they would walk with them, and conduct them in fafety to 
the water-ftde, bearing lighted torches in their hands, and 
taking them by the arm whenever the path was uneven or 
difficult. 
About ten o’clock Captain Wilson and his party arrived 
at Pelew ; the King’s canoe not being come in, no per¬ 
fon offered to go on fhore, the fame was obferved by all the 
other canoes; nor till the King went on fhore was any thing 
removed from the boats. And here I muft notice, that 
though thefe ceremonials were obferved by all ranks to 
Abba Thuljle, even by his brothers R.aa Kook and Arra 
Kooker, yet Captain Wilson and the Englijh were exempt 
from them; and Raa Kook gave him to underftand the 
Englijh might land when they pleafed ; but the Captain, 
finding. 
