THE PELEW ISLANDS. 
When a woman was pregnant, although die accompanied 
her hufband, yet die never dept with him, but always fepa- 
rated at night; and this was uniformly pra£tifed by all the 
fex, even among the lowed clafs of the inhabitants; and it 
was remarked, that during that period the utmod attention 
was obferved to women in that dtuation. — When any 
Chief appeared with his two wives, they ufually fat on 
either fide of the hulband, and the people feemed to pay 
them no other attention, but what is ufual in an inter- 
courfe of the fexes, where the greated good manners pre- 
vail.—One of our people, endeavouring to make himfelf 
agreeable to a lady belonging to one of the Rupacks , by 
what we fhould term a marked adiduity, Arra Kooker, 
with the greated civility, gave him to underdand it was not 
right to do fo. 
They name the children very foon after they are born; 
this is mod probably done without any ceremony .-—One of 
Abba Thulle’s wives lay-in of a fon, at Pelew, during the 
time our people were at Oroolong ; the King, out of his 
regard for Captain Wilson, named the little boy Captain 9 
and afterwards informed Captain Wilson of the circum- 
dance. 
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