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septI mb vifit-at-day-break ; the weather Rafter breakfaft clearing up,.
Tharfiiay 4, they; informed the King khey’'wifhed<to=refu>rn, triaORfeo-
long, to which hfe;gftented, thougjhyiefiring rather to have
detained them'another'day. T h e y found the jolly-boat rCady
loaded for them with every kind o f provifion the“; iflarid
afForded yiadd aliqut jtwo o’clock in the afternoon they left
Pelew, highly fatis fiedwith the kindnefs o f their new
friends, “giving them. i three cheers, ' as ufual, ‘ at; parting;
which was returned by the King in perfon, who in this in-
ftance put off his gravity, and laughed very much, joiriing-
the men, women, arid, children in their cheers, Handing
up, and apart in fuch .a manner, as' to.-make hinifelf| coia-
ipicuous-" i
Our people arrived fafe at the tents about nine o’clock,
though the- wind had been adverfe to 'them;' and.had-tlae
pleafure o f rinding all their companions well;
: Friday 5. T he next morning being fine, they-put out their clothes,
and the few nee.eflTaries ’which had been'-faved from the
wreck, to dry, having been much wetted hy- the late heavy
rains. Captain W i l s o n , on coming-back, had thePatisfacftiOn
. to &e that all his people, in his abferice, .had been; going on
' very affiduoufly:w ith ' the veflel,- arid that|the moft perfedt
| -harmony had fubfifted arriongft them. This was:- a circum-
ftanee which could not fail to hold out the happieft prefages,
^hat they fhould in the ’ end aceomplifh .'that point to which
their
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theirt moft ^anguine,wilhes, wpre^ jindejrflx>pd
that no capo,e had been at Oroqlong during tbefime they
had been at Pelew.
At day-light the boats (Were fei^t pgaip‘,to th^tygcck, to
fee if any other materials conjdabfepreciyed,; they brought
back in the, evening more planks, iiaris, and&an^ pther
ceffaries, Which were af'hfieritiah fef^lfef p'artie|iriri^! cbals.
Thofe %ho reriiained on fhore oWere h d f ridhbput ’ sthe^Vedfel.
— A'.lift was- made out of the ’number of men tile Kirighad
* vidled to go on his fecond expedition. On tin's as well d»
on* the former occafion, every'individual exprpft^l rireadi-
'nefitto? he~<6f the number;; arid.'f.tbdifei^ho .ddtuail^wtept,
•amicably deftled 'the\ matter >am‘ong themfe®m|;on whi'eji
thgir names were-wrote downrand ftuck againft a/tree in
the. dbck-yard'; and diredtions-given; that theF'fhotd'd hold
themfelves in reaklinefs againft the time the King :ihould
either fetch, ©r fend for them*
SEPTEMBER..
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