THE PE LEW ISLANDS. 
after tea, to carry him into another room, where there 
were two barrels of the fame kind of blue glafs (which 
held about two quarts each) placed on brackets: his eye 
was again caught by the fame alluring colour, he looked 
at them eagerly, then went away, and returned to them 
with new delight : the gentleman obferving the plea- 
fure they gave him, told him he would make him 
a prefent of them, and that he fhould carry them to Pe- 
lew ; this threw him into fuch a tranfport of joy he could 
hardly contain himfelf; he declared them to be a great 
treafure, and that when he returned, his father, Abba 
Thulle, fhould have them: he wifhed his relations at Pe- 
lew could but fee them, as he was fure they would be loft 
in aftonifhment. 
As there were fome of the ’Company’s fhips that were 
foon to fail for England, Captain Wilson declined two 
advantageous offers of the command of country fhips, think¬ 
ing it his duty to embrace the earliefl opportunity of ac¬ 
quainting, in perfon, the India Company, with the fate of 
the Antelope, and the particular circumftances attending 
it. 
It flill remained for him to lay before the companions of 
his adverfe fortune, a llatement of the different fales, and 
give to every man an equal fhare of what they had produced; 
which being fettled, Captain Wilson acquainted his offi¬ 
cers and men, that they were now at liberty to provide for 
themfelves 
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DECEMBER. 
