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cited them, to-take fa much pleafure in making them bark>
that our people were after fome time compelled to confiné-
them but of fight.
Near to the kitchen was another hollow rock,.wherè
were Appended the hams which had been faved from the
fhip, under which fires had been made, in order to fmokei
dry them for future fea-ftore. R a a K ook- was now fo familiarized
to o u r 1 people’s methods, “that he informed'thé
KinS this was f°me o f their proviffon ; he wiflied that one.
of them fliould be offered hi» brother, which was immedi-
atelyprefented, and accepted, as was alfo a live goofe ; four
or five (the remains o f the live flock) juft at that moment
■ Waddling in fight.
The -King being now returned to his former feat, in-
formed Captain W ilson that he intended to go and fleep
at the back of the ifland ; and prefently a loud fhrleît
was given by one of the King’s officers, who wore a thin
narrow bone on -his wrift, which was afterwards known to
be an Order n j g f l inferior to what we have fpoken ô f-before.
This, at the moment it was heard, threw our people
into'fome alarm, but the càufe o f it was immediately evident,
for all the King’s attendants, whom it was conceived
amounted at leaft to three hundred, though all differently
| difperfed, and engaged in looking about at every
thing that attracted th em ,,as i f inftantaneoufly moved by
1 the
the llMek, rbiglif' be'faid/to baveiathef darted tha'n to' Have
ran to their canoes. It was a fignal obeyed., more futilehly,
Ilian coul^iHav^ibeeb^conl^iv^ add’ rib'word! o^'commahd
was ever executed with- greater promptitude. The King
departed, in appearance well pleafed with his ‘yiflft and fatif-
fied" with what he hadfeen.
ffiltf.'hath been faid, in-the begirihing o f thfs chapter, that
the canoes which preceded the King,1 were flopped* a littlebe-
fore bntering'the' eoVe, by his^gaViiigf coders to’ the* ftpHdron
o f thole'which, Were armed to -dbtach ttferafel vbs^ and*!^’ ;fcf
the back o f the ifland* part o f this manoeu^re^ tr:as vifiblfe
from^tne ^ b r e^ and rn ff reft J\^asrnbtained' by intelligence^
from ’fdfne o ffq a r people, w h o had been lent oyer lland to
the watering-place,,which lay at the: hack o f the ifland, and'
who*'happened to 'h e *on fh£ fpot whdn ^the "atmed bafioes
arrived,-which fo’ alarmed them, that they-came with all
pdffible fpeed tb give information o f it. But the King being
then with the Engli/h, they were perfectly e'afy, knowing
that thefe canoes m u ft'be part o f ‘his retinue. The King
b ^ g : th e n at war, did not choofe, in vifiting out peopleV to
expofe himfelf to any infult from'his enemies, the paffage*
from Pelew to this ifland being abdut'feyen leagues!;M add'
edming with all the fentiments o f friendlhip, he* judged it
indelicate to alarm thofe who had’ fought his protection, by’
the formidable appearance of fuch numbers as'accompanied
him.
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