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if83. came and fupphcated Abba ThullE for peace, prefentiflg
oeT oberj with beads? and delivering up to him two men who
had belonged to the Malay wreck.—Arra Zook was welcomed
with every teftimony of gratitude, both in remembrance
of his former kindnefs, as alfo for his prefent good
news.
Friday 3I. : Soon after day-light another canoe arrived, which brought
information that the fleet was returning from the expedition.
About ten o’clock in the-forenoon two more came
into the harbour, in one of which was John Duncan,
who gave the following account of this expedition againft-
Pelelew, which account was fully confirmed by the others
who had been with him, at their return.—In the evening
of the 2,7th, the-day they left Oroolong, they , got' to
the frnall ifland .to the fouth ward of that place ; hauled up
their canoes, and laid under fome rocks all night.—In the
morning, at day-break, they went to an ifland four or,s five:
leagues further to the fouthward, which was uninhabited}
and lay about four, or five miles diftant from, Pelelew ;
here they built huts, or wigwams, and encamped, thebvea-
ther being very bad; when it became a little more moderate,
a party of the PeleW people went to another - ifland,
not far diftant from the firft, which belonged, to Pelelew,
and deftroyed the plantations of yams, burnt the houfes,
. and cut down the cocoa-nut trees, of which there was a
great number. The inhabitants had quitted the ifland before
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fofe th ep e o p ltp f # eeew Jandtd.
were fehf on this party; who having dernolifhedrjis- much
as they could, returned to the enf^pj^qp|;;bqfqre;fu$7)feh
--T h e .next morning the weather *<wa$> very "bad,* but-, the a fternoon
being modteratef® party jveaS feofi to -the feme ifland.
againy, toS deftroy whatever might -eib^pe^t-^^mya^e
of',:'the preceding day,;’: three o f ■
fervice.—In the evening.aliithe party .^urpeflj ASibeforeslto I
the camp.—The fecund morning two «from
Pelelew to the camp* and foon 'after - r e tu r n ^ j
companied by the linguifts.; who.)in ,thejyejeningjpgqlped
the .KfiaglsdQfoes, Attended by {thregy^Nhe PE-E^iW'Gbi^s-
._iA council was held Jby the King,foqn, a f -1
and the fucceeding morning Arra Kooker went to PEle-
lew, and concluded the peace.—After his return, which
was early in the forenoon, the King fent to the EngliJJj, to
acquaint, them that peace was made with the Pelelew
people, and defired to know if they wifhed to fee the town,
in which cafe his brother, Arr a Kooker, would accompany
them; himfelf and Raa Kook not meaning to go on fhore.
This meflage a little furprized the until it was .explained
to them by the linguift ; who informed them, that
no Rupack of higher rank than Arra Kooker could, in the
prefent fituation of the Pele-lew people, go thither ; as it
would be too great an honour and condefcenfion in the
King, either to ga himfelf, or fend the perfon next in "raids.
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