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would at all events give him five ; he feemed much pleafed i 7 8 3 * 
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with the Captain’s anfwer: who added, that fiiould his neigh¬ 
bours again make war with him, he might (from the kind 
treatment he had fhewn the Englijh) declare that they would 
return in a much larger fhip, with a number of men, and 
would avenge any infult they fhould offer to him in their 
ab fence. 
In the afternoon he took his canoes and people to the 
watering-place.—This amiable Prince was perpetually giv¬ 
ing new proofs of his attention to the Englijh: as he com¬ 
monly came with a confiderable retinue, he obferved that 
when he arrived, our people left off working, and thence 
conceived it was for fear the natives fhould pilfer their tools,, 
which he knew they fometimes could not refrain from ; 
therefore, as foon as he had dined, he made them all retire 
with him to the back of the ifland, that he might lefs im¬ 
pede that bufinefs, which he faw our countrymen had fa 
much at heart. 
He had not been at the watering-place long before he 
fent for Captain Wilson to come over to him : Mr. Sharp 
and Mr. Devis accompanied him. His canoes had juft 
come in from fifhing, a large quantity which they had 
caught lay on the ground near where the King was fitting, 
divided into two parcels; and the reafon why the Captain 
had been fent for, was to give him one of the portions, 
which confifted of ten large fifh. The Captain faid, four 
would; 
