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1783.
.KO-yEMBER.
The Honourable
Englifh Eaft India Company’s Ship
The A ni t ip o p i ,
H e N ry W 1L so n . Commander,
Was loft upon the reef north of this ifland
In the night between the 9th and 10th of
Auguft j
Who here built a veflel,
And failed from hence
The rath day o f November 1783.
The meaning of this infcription was explained to the King,
and that it was put up as a memorial of the E'ngli/b having
been there.-—He was pleafed with the idea, and e^xplained it
himfelf to his own people, promifing that it ihould neve?
be taken down, and if by any accident it ihould happen to
fall, he would take care of it, and have it preferved at
Pelew.
The difcourfe of the day turned much on the fubjeift of
their departure; whilft they fat together, Abba Thu.lle,
5 - addrefting
addreiling«- Gaptaid W^ixap^tfjfeid, are going ; and tjfijjj?
1ft flfehhgpf. e% • IZ? t ffUHi ^ m Tt 111 all will, |
gfeypi'nurnbeXg and ni<$g/$%ies asfdmi^kave
«1 queptlyWffotXoA and} kuvip^MM’tpX'af$iof(tbe Eng-
« liih, I -Jhaftf be ^unable to* hef.fl, ƒ/ t mj\vnltf\, you
'ocXicfyfu^ hav e^ajotfady^ taught
fk/n?' td fff'A foU cix>mld— Captain, Wilson fpoke to hi4
officers op the propriety of doing this, inft antly.; ■ theyffeepi£d
feme what unwilling .to put the arm sf they1 atftu awf teeant-fo
give them, ipto their hands till t& jKdP mom,enC;^t^at^
truft which had pofleffed .their mind^ftill kept its hold, |nd-
appeared' tod fftrongly imprefied om'tpe^licbuntenariMs'ftto
efcapethe q-ni^-difcermnent of the Kiagl w | | * » g pdr-f*" ^
haps'that!;they ihould know he hadpotic^\theirtadprehen-
fions,:with that, calm refledting temper-'which‘‘marked his
charaiter, ’aiked if they were afraid to truft hind
ffew arms.?* <£ What is there (faid- h&fcan make you hcirpour
« doubt s^'oP me f I never teftified any fear fOfy&\Syfhut en-
iPdeavourJd to^onvinceyou that 'I xvifke$yowrfffiePdjBipf
« Had I been difpofd to have barmed 'you, fmigmmhdefdorte
•« i f f Jong agof I have at all times had you m m y f^ e fhm p l*
u have only exercifed that posher in making it ufeful to you
« — and can you not confide in pie at the Id jif ”
When the foregoing pages are attentively coniiddred,
the hoiffttality with which our- people had been treated, ^
both by Abba T hulle and the natives, ‘from the ftrft ’
K k '> ” friendly