i783* when they arrived there, iome canoes were juft come in
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front filhing, and he ordered what had been caught to be
divided, and: the heft portion to be given to the Engltjb j
• this feejned to be the purport of the. invitation. But a
bufinefs of more confequence took place at this vifit: the
third mate, the gunner, and fliip’s fteward, came over, and
informed the Captain, that B l a n c h a r d was coming himfelf
to fpeak to the King concerning his intention of remaining
at Pklew ; after a fliort confultation, it was agreed to abide
by their former determination. The Captain, in confequence,-
talking with Abba T hulle about their departure, told him
he would, in return for the hoipitable kindnefs that both
he and his people had ihewn them, leave one of his men
with them, to take care of the guns and other things they
intended to give him when they went away ; which appears
ing to the King as a teftimony of confidence and, efteem,.
could not fail to be very acceptable.—Evening coming on,
our people returned to the tents, having firit informed
B l a n c h a r d that the matter he wifhed was fettled, and introduced
him to their Pelew friends as the perlon whom
they intended fhould remain with them-
In the night the weather was exceedingly bad, blowing a
hurricane, with fa much rain that no work could be done at
law-water, toward getting ready for the launch in the morning.—
At day-light the weather was cloudy, with little wind j
but from the very high wind in the night it was thought St®
beft' tö’defer the*veflél, ‘'ks^it.'wks. judged?:the
next ti'de yroiâd" not' rife'fùfficiently’high. for that ’purpqfe:
—The King, with ftfe'attendants^ but unacoempanied, by*any
women?)! came over land to* the ten ts' ver y Ȏarly^ and' immediately1
fet'his- ntteti fo>Wf|rk' to triaîke< 'good' ühé'Tl'aceSi where
théitempeft'öf thè>nï^ht' ha'd wafhèdîaway the paint.---A b b a
T huI l-e;’ convèEfti^:r^lftedhéfC^pfàlü;, ^g:ive:Mm..to-hn:der-
ftand, that they 'Wöuld-'havë bad weather'until thei rôôon
quartered, and^lëft’ he Ihould not be fully explicit*, he took,
up »aP largcdéaf; ?arid with his fingers tore it till it became
roundjdfo figure the'full moon, which happeried-to ?bè the
then ftate of that planet ; when he had Ihewn this!, he altered
itsuotünditÿdhto 'the form of a crefent, thereby intimât?1
i#g”’.that"’‘thé Wekthër Would contiriue ùnféttled, until'that
alteration ’took qdÀee in the mobn’s appearance : btif, as the
remaining fuch a length'of tihiè would, hawjbeérivëry' irk-
föme to-all,* who now felt^ah j irfcreafed Impatience to? get
away,^Captain' Wilson àfligned, as à-rëafdn’àgainft-any longer
delay, that.by it they might-arrivé, in-all prdhabilityi’Wt
CH i N‘A ■ (whither he knew they'were bound) Iftèr'all*!tHé
fhips of his 'COuhtrÿ.lwei‘ef failed fat feuRdFEi v^Mch would
detain them there’ till thë'fûhfëqhent fekfóhV ’ !
- While painting the veffel this morning, the ftern was'pâr-
ticularly decorated by “Raa Kook, uhdëf the immediâtè'di-
f eétion hf the King|| our pedple took nôïiçë .that Ke-îhadë■
on each fide of the ftern two5 circles.; öhé within 'another, in
' G g ‘a ' black
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Saturday 8 .