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NOVEMBER
affair to the King, who appeared much difpleafed at the
application; faid his, nephew was- a i bad: man, and|
ledted his family; that he had himfel^ two or three times,,
fince thedeceafe of his father, changed his houfis and plantation
for him, in order to cure his rambling, difpofition, but
that nothing feemed to affe&>. pr alter him.— The nephew
now prefented himfelfto urge his own fuit, probably :think-
infidhat the Captain, being prefènt,. would fecond his |re*
queft.— The King gave him an ahfolute denial, laying»'*
•« You are undwtiful, andt mother -, you have
« deferving and good women fo r your wives, to whom, as well
«■ as to a ll your relations, you behave ill, fo r tvhieh you have
a ’ n . expofed throughout the. whole ifiand— Tou. are
a aflamed o f your conduB, and would now fiy from your fa -
tt ffiily • yoïi f la il not have my confent, and I defire the Captain
« not to ' countenance you \—Jlay a t -home,— and let your fenfe
If o f flam e amend your life
The Captain intimated to Abba T h u l l e , that the veffel
being completed, and the weather .and wind fair, they intended
to fail the next day: this circumftance feemed to
give him great concern; he faid he had, by the return of
the meflenger who came to him at the ifland o f .P E T H O U L L ,
fent word to the Rupacks of the. different iflands in friendship
with him, that the day after the day that the Captain
■ now mentioned would be the time of departure, they all
wifhing
whhihg to bring the MngHfl. forne prefents for-their voyage,
as memorials of their regard ;"and would'in confequence
cjome up the evening oftliemext day, in full hope of feeing,
them before they quitted Q r o o l o n g , a fadsfadtion they
Wouid now' be deprived of.—Captain WiL&Oasr, told Abba.
T h u l l e , they had been fo amply flocked with provifions
by what his goodnefs had prepared for them, that they had
fufficient ftore for all their voyage, and that the wind and
weather befriending. theni, they Wtff'fequeft tdkakejeave,
ofbilh^he'hM^t day., The.dif^ppoix^ment the ^ j^S '^’ould
feel, .fehfibly affedted’ the King* as well ag .the,,rej®pl|e^ftion
that he had’himfelf been made the inhocent inftrument.of
deceiving them. The Captain wasr>alfo mnch finding#
«. nneafin^fs. this.ckcumfiance had opcafioned* apdithe
xpopz fo, when he.perpeiyed that thegqnorofity,pf the.Ki^g^
mind foon overcame i t for he alraoft diredfty told him, that
as it nwfl be the Iffidaq,. he requefipd himfelf -and, his officers
would dine with him on fhore; which they all a^epreb
Ingdy did.—The true paufe which induced
thjnk of going a day earlier ’than th,py had ^vmjpUt:, was to
avoid the vaftconcourie of ftrang.ers,,wh-°jtbrey hne\y were
coming, and who, they feared,, would impede then opera-
tipns by t;hp number, of, their canpesf and .their. curiojity^,
examine the ve-flel the buftle and confufion that this would
neceffarily have occafioned, muft have unavoidably incommoded