tg a A N A G C O U N. T O F
' 1783. :,
OCTOBERS.
Monday 20.
fix-pounder. When they were Ihewn thesfmall arjus,-they
by forcible geftures feemed to defcrifee .that yhofe were the
inftruments which had killed fomany of their countrymen :
at A r t in g a l l . They did not appear to entertain the flighted: r
animofityj bnt ihook hands with tYie EngUjhi'a much amity, .
and received the civilities offered, them withrgreat ithankful-
nefs.— At noon there -were fqualls, accompanied with heavy v
rain. Captain W ilson :had plenty o f fifla fent him, and
fome large Kim a C ockles, which ;a^e well .known in.the
Eaft,;as alfo in Europe, .from the number.-.of• theirtihells
which are brought over to adorn grottos and fauntaips; •;
The King lent again more fifh to the -E^^,witha;large-
.bafket of yams, and another of plantains.— R A A' K ook'being,
indifpofed, did- not eome to breakfaft, .but fent .to- defire
Captain W ilson and the,Surgeon would come -over'-toafejp
him. When they got there the King was: gone again:tp« the
wreck. : They found the General. very :feverifh, ixomr the
pain of a large boil on his arm, which Mr: SH ATipTopien'led
and drefled; he had feveral people about him, among whom..
were two women, who appeared much fcratched about .the
breaft and ftomach^ as if with pins: they, enquired the
caufe, but-not having the linguift with them, could only
learn that it was done with a prickly kind of long - leaf;
and, from th e . apparent concern • of thefe women ,c.it:,'was
conceived,- that the wounding themfelves was an external
mark of forroiv for the General’s^ indifpofition. . In
the
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the evening \td^y: -rf£upaetd f Q h r i d liim much *783.
befter. The King'-was theii come .on ihore, and feemed
flinch „pleafed with the attention fhewn his brother; he appeared’bn
this occafioirfotbe ^particularly anxious on his ap-
CQUn%,, and indeed our people had repeated opportunities to
difeoyer, that Abba T e-ulle teftified to every part of his
fuihily a mofi affe&ionsate add ddppfition.
When the. fifhing canoes cam<e in, a large portion of what
theyihad taken was -given to fire f Whilfi they were
fitting with the. King, a fly jog fox fettled a tree near
where they were, Captain Wilson’s f©rvant, .who 'fiad been
fhooting pigeons.in that part nf the ifland, juft then coming
up, and having bas piece loaded, fliot it. This is an animal
that has Ibbapfimilitude to our bat, buf i'sj ■ five or.'fix tinges
largerit refembles a fox’in-its head, and, hath much fuch a
fmell. The natives call it-OfixaiK. It runs along tbf^round,
and np .trees;like. a cat; it hasbefidbs wings, which -extend
pretty’wide, by which it flies like a bird.. The T elew
people broil and eat them whenever they can knock them
down, efteemihg them a great delicacy,; on which account
the EngliJljj whenever they faw any, ufed to fhoot them for
the King, being,, like the tame, pigeon, .a privileged dilh
for thofe o f a certain rank. The A r t in g a l l people who
were-prefent, feeing the1 animal drop -from ?the top \ of• a
lofty tree, without any thing apparently palling to it, one
o f them ran to, take it up, and on examining, it, perceived
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