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him,, on receiving this intelligence, feemecl to look at o u r
countrymen with frelli aftonifhment • they conyerfed much
among one another, teftifyirig by their actions. every indication
o f furprize.— The y walked. round the barricade and examined
it with much attention, noticing -how ftrongly and
clofely every part was intrenched and fortified..
This little ifland o f Oroolong. having been rendered far-
more commodious to the 'Engli/b b y the many necefiary efta-
hlifilments they had made fin ce thelKing had paid them his
former vifily there was o f courfe a good deal o fa d d it io n a l
novelty f o r him.., to attend to.— A fte r he. had pointed,, out
to his Ÿackalbys to notice with particular ajttend^a eyerw
tM n g a b o a fifh e barricade,>he ftrolled iuflwifitively round
th e c o v e w ith his company.— T h e noife o f th e fqÿge w h ich
our people had. fët up, and 'which was then at work,, foon
drew his attention that way : it happened that the boatfwain
was at that inftant beating out a pièce o f hot iron upon, a
pig. o f th e fame metal, which he had made, his anvil. T h is
was a cijrcumftance fo entirely n ew , and a difcovery fo in -
terefting to them, that th e y all flood abforbed in admiration.
— T h e y could not be perfuaded to ke ep at a diftance, bu t
would g e t fo clofe to th e anvil as to receive occafionally a
ho t fp ark on their naked bodies ; nor did this deter them
from catching w ith th e ir hands the luminous particles that
flew from under th e ftroke o f the hammer.— E v e ry th in g ,
under