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THE PELEW ISLANDS, 
natives, and in what things he could be inftrudtive and 1783, 
NOVEMBER, 
beneficial to them ; particularly in working fuch iron as 
had been given to them, and what more they might here¬ 
after obtain from the wreck; and alfo in taking care of 
the arms and ammunition they had left them, which 
would be of the utmoft confequence; requefting he would 
never go naked, like the natives, as, by preferring the form 
of drefs his countrymen had appeared in, he would always 
fupport a fuperiority of character; and, that he might be 
better enabled to follow this advice, he was furnifhed with 
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all the clothes they could fpare ; and directed, when thefe 
were worn out, to make himfelf trowfers with a mat, which 
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he could always procure from the natives, and thereby pre- 
ferve that decency he had always been accuftomed to.—Nor 
in the inftrudtions delivered to him, were forgotten an atten¬ 
tion to his religion; he was earneftly exhorted not to neglect 
thofe adts of devotion which he had been taught to pra£tife; 
and to keep a Sabbath or Sunday , and follow thofe Chriftian 
duties in which he had been educated.—He was laftly de- 
iired to afk for any thing that he might think would be of 
ufe and comfort to him :—when he requefted to have one 
qf the ihip’s compafies ; and, as the pinnace was to be left, 
that they might have the mails, fails, oars, and every thjng 
belonging to her; which were all given, as foon as they had 
towed the veflel oyer the reef. • ......... , : 
In the morning, at day-light, an Englijhjack was hqifted Wednefday 
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