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AN ACCOUNT OF 
THEIR FUNERALS.' 
In the foregoing narrative an account hath been given 
of the ceremony obferved by Mr. Sharp, at the interment 
of Raa Kook’s fon, in the illand of Pethoulle. Mr. M. 
Wilson, at that time at Pelew, was prefent at another 
funeral, of a young man who had died of the wounds he 
had received in the fame battle in which the King’s ne¬ 
phew had loft his life.—The account he gave me of it was as 
follows That accidentally noticing a number of the natives 
going towards a fmall village, about two miles from the 
capital, and hearing that the King was gone thither, curio- 
ftty induced him to join the throng. When he got to the 
place, he found a great crowd, furrounding a pavement on 
which Abba Thulle was feated. The dead body was 
brought from a houfe not far diftant. The proceflion flopped 
as it paired before the King, who, without rifing from his 
feat, fpoke very audibly, for a fhort time, and then the pro- 
ceffion went on.—Whether what he faid was an eulogium 
on the departed youth, who had fallen in his country’s fer- 
vice, neither of the linguifts being prefent, could not be as¬ 
certained ; but from the folemn manner in which the King 
delivered his fpeech, and the refpe£tful filence with which 
the people liftened to him, it is by no means improbable but 
that this was the purport of ih 
Mr, 
