THE P E L E W ISLANDS. 
He took the tfackelbys , or artificers who came with him, to 
fee the veffel, and appeared much delighted to obferve 
the form it had taken flnce he had lad: been on the ifland, 
and w r as quite aflonidied at the conveniences he found it 
had. Then going within the barricade, he w'as attracted by 
the boys fpinning fpun-yarn, which much pleafed him. 
His brother then took him into the China-men 's tents, who 
were all employed in picking oakum.—Among the women 
whom Raa Kook conducted about the cove, there was one 
who flruck all our countrymen as being fuperior in ele¬ 
gance and beauty, as well as in her graceful manner of walk¬ 
ing, to any female they had noticed at Pelew ; die was very 
young, and they could not help making fome enquiries about 
her of the General, who informed them that die was one of 
the King’s wives, and was called Ludee ; — -this lady, as well 
as all her female companions, teftihed that degree of fur- 
prize, which the fird dght of our different works had ex¬ 
cited in all the other natives. 
After they had amufed themfelves in feeing every thing 
that was going forward, a canvafs was fpread in the cove for 
the King, the General, and the ladies; the Captain enter¬ 
tained them with filh, and boiled rice mixed with rnoloffes 
to fweeten it; which never having tailed before, they 
feemed to relidi very much. 
The King, in converdng with the Captain, wanted to 
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