248 AN ACCOUNT OF 
>783. 
NOVEMBER. 
The Honourable 
Englifh Eaft India Company 9 s Ship 
The Antelope, 
H ENR Y Wi L s o n. Commander, 
Was loft upon the reef north of this ifland 
In the night between the 9th and 10th of 
Auguft $ 
Who here built a veflel, 
And failed from hence 
The 1 2th day of November 1783. 
The meaning of this infcription was explained to the King, 
and that it was put up as a memorial of the Englijh having 
been there.—He was pleafed with the idea, and explained it 
himfelf to his own people, promifing that it fhould never 
be taken down, and if by any accident it fliould happen to 
fall, he would take care of it, and have it preferred at 
Pelew. 
The difcourfe of the day turned much on the fubjedt of 
their departure; whillt they fat together, Abba Thulle, 
addreffing 
