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thia mode o f the King’s receiving the Ê]nglffi was fomething
the Malay had fuggefted to him, and which the King proba-
hly found fo- clumfy and foolifli that he never adopted it
again.— The y had boiled fifli and yams- placed before them ;
and during breakfafl the King ihewed Captain W ilson a
-large piece o f chintz, which tlie Malay had faved when toe-
was wrecked, and had 'given! him.-—He feemed th admire it
much, and when it had been looked at, he folded it up again
very nicely in a mat; having only produced it- as being to
him a great euriofity.
During the time o f breakfafl, the King talked much with
the Malay, who after it was over told Mr. Sharp that. A-bba-
T hut.lk wiflied he would go a little way into the .country,
without declaring for what purpofe.— Mr. Sharp hefitated,
till Mr. Devis offered to accompany him ; the King laid a-
perfon would prefehtly be there to conduót them, who, when
he came, appeared to be one o f the Rüpacks who had been
with them at Oroolong at the King’s firft coming, when
they individually fixed their notice on fome.one o f our peo-
Ple 5 a circumftance which then occasioned fome alarm, as
has before been mentioned ^. And this Chief proved to be
the perlbn who had particularly noticed Mr. Sharp as his
friend or Sucalic (a term the natives gave it.) 1
Mv. Sharp and Mr. Dev is , accompanied' by the interpreter,
put themfelves cheerfully under the guidance o f
* See page 57,
this
whofe name' ^0<fef>Wey'had.
hbt f‘ htoceededi^farj^^fef tvge(I^.A^g off^tbff clwifeway, he-
fofe; th e y ^ ^ ^ f th ’ CapVaui W L ^W ie r v ^ ih
ftraglfi^^aff^^ iemVtowt for mnhefl
The" to pimHo join^mpanfwhich he*
did, * informed^ b y ;Mr^ShARP%at he .^ a s^ $ S P |
wll^fe'the King4iacl len’t ' K i m w d r # over the hills,
IS^^paffed'^f^^a^Cpe&aAt viBagesV and ' S' vafiey®beautir *
fully cultivated with plantations o f cocoa-nuts and yams*
forming from the fummit a moft rich and delicious prof-
p eat When they had got nearly three miles from Pelew,,
the heat-has fo opiireflive, that Mr. Sharp and his compar
nidn-s hxpfehSd cM^ncbMatlon‘fo returnT>ikM 5.hut
ap^ ^MW^w hW "appealed in ^^hodritenai?^
w io % ad^coiMndted- them,’ma^'feoth^ ^ n t lp p e h ; '-
jhd'f.f S advifable not to' crois Ms w ifh e g -T h e yhH re fo re -
proceeded about a mile and a half further, when they a r - ;
rived ■ at a plantation,' at the end o f which flood hishoufe».
He 'ifolicited them to enter, when' various refrefliments were.*
placed before them. He then introduced his wife and hist
children; and fliewed Mr. Sharp a child that was affli&edS
with fome bad ulcers, from a kind o f boils, a diforder*
which he faid was common to the people th ere ; and in -
, formed Mr ...Sharp what applications he had himfelf.ufed to-
hrs child, which were chiefly fomentation^ made w ith certain
leaves-; and that occasionally,. after the inflammatory.
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