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pleafant to his departing friends, yet on either fide of her 
were a multitude of canoes, filled with the common natives, 
who had all brought our people prefents from themfelves, 
intreating they might be accepted,—It was in vain they 
were told that the veffel was fo full there was no room to 
receive any thing more; each held up a little fomething, 
6 ‘ Only this from me ”— “ Only this for me” was the ge¬ 
neral cry;—the repetition of which was urged with fuch 
fupplicating countenances, and watery eyes, that this be¬ 
witching tedimony of afFe<dion and generofity almoft over¬ 
came every one on board.—From fome of thofe who were 
neared:, a few yams or cocoa-nuts were accepted; and the 
poor creatures, whofe intreaties could not be attended to, 
unable to bear the difappointment, paddled ahead, and 
threw the little prefents they had brought into the pinnace, 
totally ignorant that fhe was to return back with Elan- 
chard. 
Several canoes preceded the pinnace, to mark the fafed 
track for the veffel; and others were ftationed at the reef, 
by the King’s command, to point out the deeped water for 
her padage over it: by all the previous examinations, as 
well as by the prefent precautions, the Or00long cleared 
the reef without the lead difficulty. 
The King accompanied the Engli/h in their veffel, almod 
to the reef, before he made a fignal for his canoe to come 
L 1 2 alongddei 
1783. 
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