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manners of the country, which had fo forcibly worked on 
Blanchard’s imagination, the firft time he went with them 
to fight againft Artingall, that on his return, while in 
the canoes, he declared to his companions, that he would 
molt willingly partake of all their labour, would lend them 
every afliftance in his power towards building and fitting 
out their new veffel; but that when they departed he would 
remain behind, and end his days among the natives of Pe» 
lew. —This was at the time looked on as a jeft; but he 
never varied from thefe fentiments, and now proved his re- 
folution was unalterable. 
About eleven o’clock in the forenoon of this day the 
pinnace returned, bringing the King, his young favourite 
daughter, Raa Kook, and feveral of the Chiefs, in her. 
Our people gave the following account of the commiflion 
they were charged with :—In their paffage to Pelew, the 
preceding day, they faw a confiderable number of canoes, 
which went in ill ore to avoid the bad weather ; on com¬ 
ing nearly abreaft of them, one appeared to be making 
towards the pinnace, which thereupon flood to meet it; in 
this was the Chief Minifler , who gave thofe in the pinnace 
fome cocoa-nuts and boiled yams; he informed our people 
that the King had fheltered himfelf from the weather un¬ 
der the fnore, being on his way to Or00long. After 
taking fome of the refrefhmehts offered, the pinnace went 
to the King, who was in his canoe, furrounded by feveral 
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1783, 
NOVEMBER. 
Friday 7. 
