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1783 * 
OCTOBER. 
Friday 3r. 
AN ACCOUNT OF 
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came and fupplicated Abba Thulle for peace, prefenting 
him with beads, and delivering up to him two men who 
had belonged to the Malay wreck.—A rra Zook was wel- 
corned with every teflimony of gratitude, both in remem¬ 
brance of his former'kindnefs, as alfo for his prefent good 
news. 
Soon after day-light another canoe arrived, which brought 
information that the fleet was returning from the expe¬ 
dition. About ten o’clock in the forenoon two more came 
into the harbour, in one of which was John Duncan, 
who gave the following account of this expedition againft 
Pelelew, which account was fully confirmed by the others 
who had been with him, at their return.—In the evening 
that they left Oroolong (which was the 27th) they got 
to the fmall iiland to the fouthward of that place; hauled 
up their canoes, and laid under fome rocks all night.—In 
the morning, at day-break, they went to an ifland four or 
five leagues further to the fouthward, which was uninha¬ 
bited, and lay about four or five miles diflant from Pele¬ 
lew ; here they built huts, or wigwams, and encamped, the 
weather being very bad ; when it became a little more mo^ 
derate, a party of the Pelew people went to another iiland, 
not far diflant from the firft, which belonged to Pelelew, 
and deflroyed the plantations of yams, burnt the houfes, 
and cut down the cocoa-nut trees, of which there was a 
great number. The inhabitants had quitted the ifland be¬ 
fore 
