THE PELEW ISLANDS. 
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fen women in his train ; whether this was a mark of hu¬ 
miliation fliewn to Abba Thulle, or a public teflimony of 
friendfhip and confidence being re-eftabli(lied between them, 
our people could not underhand ; but certain it was, that all 
the women did not return again to Pelelew with their King, 
as two of them came afterwards to Oroolong with Abba 
Thulle, but whether they remained on a vifit, or as hof- 
tages, they were not certain.—The two Malays were unquef- 
tionably given up to the King; and it is not improbable but 
that he might have been inftigated by Soogle, the Malay fa¬ 
vourite, to demand his two countrymen, and that the King of 
Pelelew refufing to give them up, might increafe whatever 
mifunderftanding fubfifled before, and fo excite the Pelew 
people to go on this hoftile expedition, in which they appear 
to have exercifed a rancour undifcovered in their other con¬ 
tentions ; which the King of Pelelew, by his well-timed 
fubmiflion to terms, happily faved his people from more 
fully experiencing.—Before noon, Raa Kook came to Oroo¬ 
long with a number of canoes, bringing with him all our 
countrymen; who commended much the pleaiantnefs of 
the ifland of Pelelew, faid it appeared fertile, the land 
more level than hilly, and- that the houfes were rather 
larger and better built than thofe at Pelew, having abun¬ 
dance of cocoa-nut and other trees about them. The 
inhabitants feemed to be. courteous, friendly, and well- 
difpofed; and fhewed particular attention to the EngHfh , 
although, 
1783- 
OCTOBER, 
