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“ natives were going to roaft me, and that they had only
“ laid themfelves down that I might alfo drop afleep, and
If intended to feize me in that fituatiom-hHowever, being
“ furrounded by a danger, which there was no poflibility of
“ efcaping, I collefted all my .fortitude, and, recommending
“ myfelf to the Supreme Difpofer o f all events, I expected
« every moment to meet my fate; when, to my great fur-
tc prize, after fitting a little while and warming themfelves,
u I perceived they all retired again to their mats, nor gotup
“ any more till day-break, when I arofe and walked about,
“ encircled h'y great numbers of men, women, and children.
K It was not long before the King’s brother joined me, and
“ went with me to feveral houfes, where I was entertained
“ with yams, cocoa-nuts, and fweetmeats.— Being after this
M conduced to the King, I lignified to him by geftures that
a I much.wifhed to go hack to my brother; he perfectly uii-
“ derftood me, and explained to me by figns that the canoes
“ could not go out, there being too much wind and fea. To
“ defcribe the firft he pointed up to the trees, and blew
i | ftrongly with his mouth; and, to mark the too great
“ force o f the fea-on the canoes, h e joined his two hands foi
l gcther with the palms upwards, then lifted them up, and
“ turned them the reverfe way, to exprefs to me that the
“ canoes would overfet.— The remainder of the day I fpent
“ in walking about the ifland and obferving its produce. I
u found it confifted chiefly o f yams and cocoa-nuts ; the forx
ce mer
« mer they cultivate with great -care in -large plantations, iff
o fwampy -.watery igfound, Ske t he rice.-in India. Th e
cocoa-nut tree^grow \ ci v near to, theiffhoufes, as,does alfo
■ -«fflae beetie*ntv»t, which they ch©>was to'baOed’.^The-fovour-
able account brought by Mr. M. Wilson, and -the mefTag®?
which the Kiijg had fegaraciouffy fgnt to Captam Wilson
fey his fbn, coukl not fail ofgivimg.fpiiAtss to afl our people.
■ Captain Wilson drafted .the King’s fon in a filk coat and
a pair -of feine trowfersj he was a young «nan extremeiy well
made,, hut hadjpft his nafeu This nflght aGcM have
been torn off by a fpear in feattle, .or it might have been the
effect of a fcrophulous habit, which Mr. 'SaARP the furgeon
found afterwards prevailed much among the natives.
. Before noon the .two boats were lent off to the wreck,
hut .the bad weather compelled Mr. Barker to come back
with the jolly-boat. The pinnace returned before evening,
with feme iron, one hag of rice, and fundry other ftofes;;
our people brough t intelligence that they found upwards of
twenty canoes bulled about the veflel,. and .that feme of the
natives had been very angry at having feme iron and a outlf
lafs, which they had got out of her, taken from them. Raa
K o-ok immediately feat his brother and nephew off in a canoe,
who returned at night with the information that .they
had been totally driven awayfo affured were o,m people
now of Raa Kooxjs frfendlhip and prote^lfenj thcmgh but
three days? acquainted withhbapt, that eiep iwheavf^parft^d
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