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ment could not move her, until the tide began to fall; they 1783* 
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therefore let every thing remain until the next tide, hoping 
in that time to difcover and remove the obftrudtion. 
Blanchard having come over with the King in the 
morning, gave an account to his comrades of his treatment 
after the Captain and his companions had left him; the 
King, he faid, was very much pleafea in the thought of his 
being to remain at Pelew, and with his readinefs to hay 
with them, and had promifed to make him a Rupacky and 
to give him two wives, together with a houfe and planta¬ 
tions ; alluring him, that he would do every thing to make 
him happy and contented, and that he fhould always be with 
himfelf or Raa Kook. — Madan Blanchard was a man 
of a lingular charadter, about twenty years of age, of rather 
a grave turn of mind, at the fame time polfelling a con- 
iiderable degree of dry humour; and what rendered the 
circumhance of his determination the more remarkable is, 
that it was well known he had formed no particular attach¬ 
ment on the illand. His good-tempered, inoffenlive beha¬ 
viour during the voyage had gained him the regard of all his 
Ihipmates ; and, feeing the extraordinary refolution he had 
taken of remaining behind, every one was anxious to intereft 
the natives in his favour. As he perfevered in his refolu¬ 
tion to the laft, every reader will naturally feel a wifh to 
learn fomewhat of the fubfequent fortune of a man volun¬ 
tarily cutting himfelf off from the reft of the world — du¬ 
bious 
