94 A N A C C O U N T . O F
1783.
I T uefilay 26.
they ftaid the night, and after a paffage this .morning of five
honp^rejpined their, Ihipmates, .to .the mutual f%tMa6tion
ofall.
*»4 ^-having beep found during the time ourcountryrnepjhisd^
een abfent; at their. retnFn: they were fervid fthe'
liquor due-to them, in’the proportion that; .it had. .been ufed
at thp^tents in their abfence, which they invited their com-1
rades to partake of in the evening, and this, with the yams*
and cocoa-nuts they brought, made aTeaft— Thofe who.had
been aldent were exceedingly rejpiced to,fee the ;harbour
and tents .put in a Hate of defence-; but, above „all, at,the
progrefs in the veffel, wherein all t^ofuture hopes of eyetys
individual were already in imagination embarked.
;J At day-break the boatfwain, as ufuagplped all. ont Jto
thpir feparate departments; and thofe who had been at the
war, having depofited with the gunner their military weam
pons, moft willingly joined in the convention wfil^had;
been made in their abfence, and entered on their different?
talks..
Raa Kogk haying informed Captain Wilson the preceding
night, that his brother, Abba. T hulle, 'had given to
him, for the Bnglijb, the ifland he was then on, the name of-
which they had not heard before,’ but now learnt it was
called Oroolong ; after breakfaft, Captain Wilson, in tef-, .
tknony of the King’s donation, hoifted the Britijfrpendant,
and fired, three vollies of fmall arms,, in token of their, taking
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ing.ip6fieflionLofi it
they retprnetirift » th e < c'arici^i'fi’fern |h&llthe? tiat ives
■ #ere pQA-itogftmfee liftatiil and
feife King.thad fstiff
known to Captain Wilson tin-, gr<titt. (rt,th^iil’a n d ,l$M
give jtb’e. Captain; ah invifcati’O'n ttifi
hjmfetf for tfief pr$fenh’dsaying<ifo timeh’ to,
O^OOLO^ti;;but fenf M r.BE^Ek, who-haidbfe^^irft Mate
of ;tHe.ANTELqpE.^ arfd liis brother, Mr.M.WrpacM., with'the
linguift, T om'Rose, and one of tiali GhindrmM^Nv^9 weft/
jiconapanw-d by the General, 11 \ \ Kook, tomomplimenfcjhe
Ki^i^pou ws^liflory^ dncl to prefent! the r '^ le ^ # ifmim-
felf and countrymans, on thdnccafion'. PTh&reafoti#f
Capt^n -WrxsjQ^'snfeHding One1 of ,the- Cbina^tmn wasgvfhis^
that-heynightnotice more particularly the prbd|i^o|the,
•country,' andtixapiine i f there might not be vegetables,g§dd.
l-0 g-qihfrh,e? natives, overlookedj’or did!not attend to;,
he\alf©: gave~him .in charge to be very-accurate in obferving
if they had^t'ot plants 'at Pblew fimilar. to thofe in his own
country. The- Cfripefe am all tolerable Botanifts^^nA live
principally on vegetables, fo that turn a CMna-man ©many'
ffot, he would contrive to pick a meal- for himfelf.from.it.
The truth of this remark Captain- Wilson, had experienced,
from repeated voyages he had made to 1 China^ as well as-
from the general character of thofe people; rJ
This afternoon, after feeing one of the. frame timbers’.dp*
the:
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