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wiffiing to bring the Englijh fome prefents for their voyage, N0 I7 ^ 3 - ef 
as memorials of their regard; and would in confequence come 
up the evening of the next day, in full hope of feeing them be¬ 
fore they quitted Oroolong, a fatisfaction they would now be 
deprived of.—Captain Wilson told Abba Thulle, they had 
been fo amply flocked with provifions by what his goodnefs 
had prepared for them, that they had fuflicient ftore for all 
their voyage, and that the wind and weather befriending 
them, they muft requeft to take leave of him the next day. 
The difappointment the Chiefs would feel, fenflbly affected 
the King, as well as the recollection that he had himfelf been 
made the innocent inftrument of deceiving them. The Cap¬ 
tain was alfo much hurt at finding the uneafinefs this cir- 
cumftance had occafioned, and the more fo, when he per¬ 
ceived that the generality of the King’s mind foon overcame 
it; for he almoft directly told him, that, as it muft be the 
lafi day, he requefted himfelf and his officers would dine 
with him on fiiore; which they all accordingly did.—The 
true caufe which induced the Englifh to think of going a 
day earlier than they had given out, was to avoid the vafi 
concourfe of ftrangers, who they knew were coming, and 
whom, they feared, would impede their operations by the 
number of their canoes, and their curiofity to examine 
the veflel; the buftle and confufion that this would ne- 
ceiTarily have occafioned, muft have unavoidably incom- 
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