i7s3-
AUGUST,
Saturday
30.
C H A P T E R X.
A Pajfqge is dij'covered through theC ora l Reef, fujficient to
carry out the Vejfel when completed^Captain W ilso n ,
Mr. Sharp, Mr. De v is , and Mr .-Henry W ilson, go to
Pelew to vifit the Kin^^-Ah Account of the Hofpitality with
‘ibhicb they were received.— Some Befcription o f the Manners
o f the Natives, and o f their ModeofLiving.— Mr. Sharp A
requeuedmgo into the Country to fee a fc k Child o f oneffihe
Rupacks, which be does, and rétufns to Pelew .
r I HIE morning proved fo wet that our people could not
ftand out to work, but were employed in the tents.
Raa Kook fent away fome of the canoes which came with
him, detaining only fuch as were to carry Captain W il so n
down to Pelew.—The Malay, who had been the interprétée
to the natives, and whofe name Was Soogle, being on fliore,
took a compafs, and pointing to the S. S'. W. faid,that five
days fail from Oroolong, on that point of the compafs,
was the place he came from, which he called Monado ;
that there were about forty Butch people there, abundance
of pepper, and plenty of hogs and poultry. He faid Monado
was three days fail from Ba t a v ia ; that when he left
Ba t a v ia they'had three veffelsib^proas, that two o f them,
parted'conapany, arid that the orie h e was dri board' of, going
from-, Mo'n^ do^ to-TerN was driven by a hard'gale o f
wand-, hitherij where they \yeru ^r@Gk$?d.- Our people fup-
pofed' there? wa®' much fahhoodr in this fellow’s account",
and,/ from eonverfatidnS' their own lihguift had with him,
they jfnifpebted : thefe people had been Malay j^tf*»ywh ich
theyf afterwands had confirmed,- b y o n e o f them who was
brought to*England.^-M the afternoon Mr. C ummin was
ferftJ in, the’ jolly-boat^ to try-fan the pafFage through the
reef which- was thought" to1 'have -been- difeovened'the day beV
fbre, from th& Lookout above the tents. , Captain W ilson
took» up fame “men,, and cleared folk more the fpot intended
for k in b ferva to ry .^ Th e jolly-bbati refurnedr, after -haying
beeni wh houtthe reef through a. narrow pai&gejj iri which
they found at loW-Watfer tim©e*fosrarid*a h a lf o f water, arid j •
aS lt Mnffi.aftgdni'ori- n i n e u p o n a i^trig-tide^’it' Was1 ju d g ed
there muft he at-thofe times twelve feet o f water, which
wotfMbealmofo double the draught o f the Schooner when
fiMifhedi^ThiS J-v^sX ari information Which. re'viveA every
orie?S' hopeSi ~andr Made'-’ all*‘bur people look forward with
frefh fpifith. Intelligence' w<as alfo'brbught, that they had
found feven fathom Water immediately without the reef,
and > three fathom w ith in 1 in the - fhoaleft part, - which was a
narrow bank of- fand thatforfried a -bar,— Thefe obfervations
O i 'vere
1783.
AUGUST.