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i 7 8 3 » their willies, and got the veffel down about fix feet; they 
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then flopped till high-water, and fent to the King, who with 
all his attendants came over to be prefent at the launch.— 
About feven o’clock, our people happily got their veffel 
afloat, to the general joy of every fpeilator, all appearing 
deeply interefled in the fuccefs of this event.—The EngliJlj 
gave three loud huzzas at her going ofly in which they 
were joined by the natives, whofe friendly hearts feemed 
on this occafion to feel a fatisfa&ion little inferior to that 
of our own people, which may be fuppofed to have been 
great indeed.—The Engli/h fhook hands with each other, 
with a cordiality but feldom experienced; and the mutual 
look of congratulation, exchanged from eye to eye, con¬ 
veyed to each other’s feelings, with energy and ardour, thofe 
fentiments of tranfport which words w T ould not with equal 
force have communicated. The long-wifhed-for moment 
of deliverance was now almoft arrived ; every one faw again, 
in imagination, thofe objeits of his affection, from whom, 
but a few weeks paft, he thought he had been feparated for 
ever. And the part the inhabitants of Pelew appeared to 
take in the comfort of the day, extinguifhed for the prefent 
every alarm that had been unjuftly entertained.—Indeed the 
conduit of the latter now exhibited, in loveliefl colours, the 
triumph of native benevolence.—They faw thofe Grangers 
Teady to depart, from whofe aid they had benefited, and 
from 
