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NOVEMBER 
AN ACCOUNT OF 
at the mafis-head of the veffel, imcf one of the fwivels- &&& 
as a fignal for failing; this being explained to the King, he 
ordered boats immediately to take on board yams, cocoas 
nuts, fweetmeats, and other things provided for the-voyage ; 
betide which, many canoes of the natives* loaded with a pro^ 
fufion of provilion-, lay alonghde* the* OroolON’g ; fo 1 that, 
had all the expected northern Rupacks added their intended 
prefents, it would have fupplied a fhip of five times the' 
fize. 
As foon as tlie veffel was loaded with every thing they 
could take on board, and ready for fea, the boat was- fent Oh 
fhore for the Captain; who acquainting the King therewith, 
he' dignified that he and his foil would come on Board pre- 
fently in his canoe. — Captain Wilson then took Blan¬ 
chard, as alio the five men who had’come on fhore for 
him, into a temporary houfe that had been erected for the 
accommodation of theR-upack Maath, who was expelled 
from the northward! and being entered, he once more re~ 
quelled Blanchard to imprefs on his memory' all that" 
advice which he had before given him; and particularly to 
beobfervant of his duty; that the people of PEijew might' 
thereby fee that he retained that faith and fenfe of religion 
in which he had been trained; He then made the feamen 
prefent kneel down with him, and unite in thanksgiving 
to that Supreme Being, who had not only fupported their 
fpirits in the midll of fevere toils and dangers; but had 
now 
