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and his Chiefs before their departure, that they might make * 7 8 3 - 
NOVEMBER. 
them their perfonal acknowledgments, and allure them, that 
when they returned to their own country, they would pub¬ 
licly declare the kind fervices and protection they had re¬ 
ceived from them. This was conveyed in the form of a letter, 
Which Mr. Sharp was directed to read to the King in the 
prefence of the two linguifts, who were to explain it to him, 
as coming immediately from the Captain. 
While Mr. Sharp and Mr. M. Wilson, together with 
Tom Rose, the interpreter, were receiving the above inftruc- 
tions, Madan Blanchard, one of the feamen, came into 
the tent for fome tools that he wanted, and hearing the Cap¬ 
tain explaining his letter to Tom Rose, delired him alfo to 
tell the King, that when his countrymen went away, he in¬ 
tended to Ray behind, and remain with him at Pelew ; Cap¬ 
tain Wilson delired him not to fend any fuch idle melTage, 
and to go about his bulinefs, and forbad Tom Rose to deli¬ 
ver it; upon which Blanchard very ferioufly delired it 
might be delivered, alluring the Captain, that it was his fet¬ 
tled determination to remain at Pelew, if the King would 
permit him. Finding he had taken up fuch a Arrange refolu- 
tion, the Captain endeavoured all in his power to dilTuade him 
from it, fetting before him the many difficulties and difadvan- 
tages he would have to combat, when his friends and compa¬ 
nions were gone, particularly as he had no trade, like that of a 
carpenter or a fmith, by which he might make himfelf of ufe 
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