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AN ACCOUNT OF 
1783- know where he kept his powder, and how much he had; 
OCTOBER, 
he anfwered, that the gunner, who had the care of it, was 
abfent, but when he came home in the evening he would 
enquire. Abba Thulle feeming to recolleft that there 
might be fome impropriety in the queftion, changed the 
difcourfe initantly, nor refumed it any more. He faid he 
was come to get the great guns on ihore, and afked if he 
iliould bring them to Oroolong, or take them to Pelew l 
Captain Wilson went out and eonfulted the Chief Mate, 
when it was thought befl to pay him the compliment of 
faying he might take them all to Pelew except one, which 
would be wanted to go with the velTeL 
Abba Thulle informed the Captain that he w T as now 
at peace with moft of his neighbours, but that he believed 
he was indebted for this peace to their mufquets ; he there¬ 
fore hoped the Englijh would give him fome when they 
went away; adding, that they did not requeft iron, as of 
that they had now received a fufficiency; the only thing 
they wifhed for was powder and mufquets,. and defired he 
might have ten,—In anfwer to all this the Captain told him, 
that the Englijh would always continue to be his friends; but 
that* it would be impoflible to Ipare ten of them then, as the 
Englijh were at that moment at war with different nations, 
whofe fhips they might have to contend with in their paffage 
home; however, that when they quitted his country, they 
would 
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