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When one confiders that thefe medical gentlemen at 
Pelew never purfued any other method but cutting out 
the part affe£ted; and that till the prefent sera, when ac¬ 
cident had thrown in their way a few twopenny knives, 
their operations were performed by fhells ground to an 
edge; one muft wonder at the boldnefs of the practice; 
and, living ourfelves in countries where the anatomy of the 
human frame and the art of furgerv are fo well underftood 
and perfeftioned, aided too by luch admirable inftruments, 
one cannot avoid feeling for the corporal fufferings of thofe 
whom difeafe or accident fubjedted to be pradtifed on by 
a Pelew furgeon,. 
When the jolly-boat returned with Mr. Sharp and Tom 
Rose (Mr. Devis choofing to remain till the King went 
againft Pelelew) it brought plenty of yams and fweetmeats, 
and alfo five young wild ducks juft fledged, the only bird 
of the duck kind our people faw in thefe parts.— Tom Rose 
informed the Captain, that what Abba Thulle wanted him 
for, was to make more enquiries of him concerning the Eng- 
liJJjy and to give him fome account of the different people 
they were at war with. 
This morning the veffel’s bottom was breamed ; the out- 
fide caulking being completed, to the great joy of all.—They 
now filled up the trench under the veffel, and broke down the 
dam, which was a work of fome labour, as the bank had 
become as folid and firm as if formed by nature ; they alfo 
10 cleared 
1783. 
OCTOBER. 
Sunday. 26. 
