17S3. know where he kept his powder, and how much.he had;
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he anfvered, that the gunner, who had the care of it, was
abfent, but when he came home in the evening he would
enquired A bba T hulle feeming to recolledt th at there
might be Tome impropriety in the queftion, changed the
difcourfe inftantly, nor refumed it any more. He faid he
was come to get the great guns oh fhore; and afked if he
ftiould bring them to Oroolong, or take; them to Pelew ?
Captain W ilson went out and consulted -therOhief. Mate,
when it was thought bell to pay him the compliment .of
faying he might take them all to Pelew except one,, which
would be wanted to go with the veffel. .
A bba T hulle informed: the Captain that he was now
at peace with'moft of his neighbours, but that hehelieved
he was indebted for this peace'to their mufquets; he therefore
hoped the Engli/b would give him. fonie when they
went away; adding* that they did not requefi.iron,Tas;of
that they had now received a fufficiency; the only thing
they wifhed for was powder and mufquets, and defired he
might have ten.— In anfwer to all this the Captain told him,
that the Engli/b would always continue to he his friends; but
that it would be impofflble to .fpare ten o f them then, as the
• Engli/b. were at that moment at war with different nations,
whofe fnips they might have to contend with in their paffage
home; however, that when they quitted his country, they
<i gj would
would at all events’give him five; he feemed much pleafed
with thé Captain’s- anfwer: who added, that fhould his
hfeighb'ohr$ again make war with him, he. might (from the
kind treatment he had (hewn the Englt/h/ declare that they
would rëturh in a much larger fhip with a number of men,
afid vfotfld aVengè any infult llrey fhould offer to him in
their’abfence;. '
In' the afternoon he took his canoes and people to the
w'atefïng-praée.—This amiable Prince was perpetually giw*
ing new proofs, of his attention to the.Engli/h: as he com-
möhTy dkrrto With a cphfiderable retinue., he obferved that
when'fhe' arrived, our people left off working, and thence
conceived itJwas for fear the natives fhould pilfer their tools,
Wlï&l^feé'-'-knew they" fometiines could not refrain from;
therefore, as foon as he had dined, he made them all retire
with him to the back of the ifland, that he might lefs impede
» that bufinefs, which he; faw our countrymen had fo
much;at heart;
He had not been at the watering-place long before he
feat for-Captain W ilson to come over to him : Mr, Sharp
and Mr. Devis accompanied him. His cafnoes had juft come
in. from fifhing,' a large quantity which they had. caught
lay on the ground near where the King was fitting; divided
into two parcels ; and the reafon why the Captain had been
fent fdr, was to give him' one of the portions, which con-
fifted of ten large fifh. The Captain faid, four'Would be as
many,
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