THE PELEW ISLANDS. 
then it is fit for eating without any further dreffing, and 
would keep a couple of days, though certainly not fo well- 
flavoured as when eaten frefh.—By a good obfervation at 
noon, the latitude of the watering-place was y° i8' north, 
and the northern extremity of Oroolong was 7 0 19" north. 
The King left five or fix canoes with the women at the wa¬ 
tering-place, and went to the wreck ; the Captain fent fome 
tea againft he came on fhore, and afterwards went over him- 
felf, to complain to him of the lofs of a caulking-iron and an 
adze; which he promifed fhoukl be enquired after and re¬ 
turned. Three of the Art ingall people being with the 
King, they were pointed out to Captain Wilson, who gave 
them an invitation to breakfaft. 
Arra Kooker came to fpeak about the things that had 
been purloined. He had recovered the caulking- iron, but 
the adze had been carried to Pelew. —He told them the 
King requefted ten of our people to aftift in getting out the 
guns, his own having no tackle equal to the effe< 5 ting it; 
they were accordingly fent off to the wreck, where Abba 
Thulle met them, and w r as not a little amazed when he 
faw the eafe with which the bufinefs was managed.—The 
General, accompanied by the Artingall people, came, as 
invited, to breakfaft with the Englijh . They fhewed them 
their tents, and the work that was going forward, with 
which they feemed aftonifhed, and particularly with the 
fwivel and fix-pounder. When they were fhewn the fmall 
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1783. 
OCTOBER. 
Sunday 19, 
arms, 
