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mending to them all, but particularly-his officers,' to return
to En g l an d , where, be had ho doubt, bût that the’ Honourable
Company .would recompenfe, in ibme meafure,
every individual for the hardfhips they had fuftaided ; declaring
that he felt himfelf in the higheft degree obliged to
them for the good order, the unanimity, and thé excellent
conduót they had fo cheerfully perfevered in, during thé
trying foenes they had experienced together, and which had
afforded them an opportunity of teftifying their zeal for the
general fervice ; which it ffiould be his hufinefs to reprefênt
in fuch terms as their wholeLhehaviour truly merited, i
. Mr. Sharp, who, from the time of leaving the PeLSWS
iflands, had taken L ee Boo under his immediate care^ ®OWî
refigned his charge to Captain WïLS0N, :and camédïdnl^ in
the L a scel les , Captain W a k e f ie ld ; the othër. offiöers
and people engaged in .diffèrent Ihips, as 'vacancies offered ;
but the greater part of the men embarked in the.Y o r k , Captain
Bl a n c h a r d ; nor did any o f them' feparate without:
fome emotions of concern in quitting thofe. companions with
whom they had fhared fo many difficulties.
L ee Boo embarked with Captain W ilson in the Morse,
Captain Joseph El l io t t , who, in the moft friendly .man*:
ner, accommodated them to En g l a n d . And, as we have
now difppfed of, and difperfed all thofe Who formerly competed
the complement of the A n t e lo p e , I ffiall, for the
prefent, leave their refpeéted Commander purfuing, with
otir
T H E PE. LEW I S L A N D S .
our ybraig Prince,' his voyagé to England .—Being incHned 1783.
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to hope that?the character and conduét'of .thefe hitherto unknown
people, whom- I have. introduced m the foregoing
narrative, have Inferefted .’the- reader, I fhall noy give him
fomel account of .Cuftctas* Mannersjg|and;
Aits,^of the Natives of Pelew, asr far as I have been,able to
eohedfc them, from. thei<ffifferent repoEts (fcf. the Captain, and.
fbehmf his officers who. have. favoratedL me with their, communications*.
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