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178-2. to thofe Grangers they might never more fee !— 1 The mef- 
NOYEMBER. 
fenger being difpatched, the King retired again to his mat. 
Early in the morning Abba Thulle and his Rupacks 
went to bathe, and returned to breakfaft, when he prepared 
to proceed to Qb.oqlong.-~~ Mr. Sharp and Mr. M. Wilson 
invited the General to go with them in the pinnace, which 
he accepted, ordering his canoes to attend the King.—When 
they had got about two or three miles from the iliand, it 
began to blow frefh, fo that the canoes were obliged to make 
their way along the fhore for fhelter; Raa Kook, delighted 
to fee the pinnace fail fo well, and feel fo little the effedt of 
the bad weather, requefted his two friends to go in fhore to 
the King, and afk him on board ; which they immediately 
complied with. —Abba Thulle, with his young daughter, 
and the Chief Minijler , came into the pinnace; the wind 
flill frefhening, they made great way, the boat rolling much, 
going before the wind and fea.—The King and his company 
exprelfed great fatisfaction in finding they fat there fo dry 
and comfortable to what they could have done in a canoe, 
which is only fit for fmooth water; our people perceiving 
he was fo pleafed with the pinnace, informed him, that the 
Captain intended to prefent him with that boat when they 
went away; on which he defired his brother Raa Kook 
to be very particular in obferving in what manner the fails 
were managed. 
They 
