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was ^óft&bceaied under th isg j^ ^H ; fearing alfo, that the
eagernefs o f the natives to come on board and view her interior,
as well as hex efjenoi-formj1 might caufe confufion and
delay, oppofed the King’s, propofal, by fuggefting fuch well-
conceived abjections to it, that he acquiefced, and nothing
moré was ever faid on the fubjcót.
It may not be improper in this place to notice, that from
the time Raa K ook was bulled with the King in painting the
veffel, it was obferved, that there was a pen five' gloom about
him, Which they had never before leen cloud his countenance,
naturally open and cheerful.— The Captain found it had be6a
occafioned by a difappointment he had met with.— His great
attachment to the Englijb had induced him to affc his brother’s
permilhcHi to accompany them to England, to which
the King had refufed his confent affigning the neceflity he
was under toobjeét toit, from the circumftance o f his being
the next heir, and th e inconvenience that would arife in
câfe o f his .own- death when he Ihould be abfent ; th n fe c y
eéffion of the fovereignty of Pelew firff devolving to the
brothers of the King, in fueceffion, and after their deaths reverting
to the eldeft fon of the firft branch of the family ; the
fécond fen becoming, o f conrfe, hereditary General' o f the
forces. And though the goodtmderftanding which R a a K oqk
poffeflèd, (hewed him the impropriety o f what he haddefired,
and the prudent ground o f his brother’s refufal, yet it was
4- evident
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evident it Had much depreffed him ; indeed, the'very ftroiig:
partiality 'he had from the fefeteftified for. our-countrymen,
the pleafure he always -fcemec! to eng.oy in their fociety, and:
the intereft he certainly felt in their welfare, Would, naturally
touch his fenfibility, make him fee with, regret' the fails of]
his departing friends unfurled, and antici>päid!the''lf|^ng o f
farewe'l !
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heridifig t?foe fails,ulbmpieting tfee fife-pi’a ^ a r fd ^ F Ä S ^ 'th e
veSeiTfkdy for fea. v
^*yEai4y'fl^l^^nd'0ii a iSi'rc Cräift'arfeb" aiofiKÖf a riatiit^ioO
iin^ular to l l | o röfeeHt— Tndfem’asia%o'uli:'§ rhäh"'Fibq’Öentiy
with wife fead ■ taken a pleafurP ^ affi'mjfpee
himfelf to all their ways and manners, and who now applied
to Captain W i l s o n , to f o h c i t him to take him in
his veffel to E n g l a n d ; he was anfwered by the Captain,
that it would he imppffible to do it without the direction
and confent o f the King, who had already fpoken
to him o f taking his fen and another man hut, that "as he.
wifhed it, he would fpeak to'.the King, and know his. plea-.
fure.— The young man above alluded to, was the King’s
nephew, and fon o f that brother who had been kilted at;
A rtung ALL, and whofe death had' occafioned the war
which had fo lately been terminated between his uncle and
thofe people.—Captain W ilson accordingly mentioned the
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