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Wednefitay
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u dropped great part of our fleet bythé way, who had filed
u off to their refpeéHve homes) and then went up to P:E-
u lew, where there was finging and dancing mofi: part
a o f the night; the natives attributing the: fuccefs of the
<£ day to üs, and often in their forigs repeating .the word
M Engleei. They expofed the- dead , bodies of their pri-
fianers feverai days, till they became'moft horribly offen-
§P five, and then they-were either buried or thrown into the
tea.” ;
Such wefethe.particulars of the fecond battle of Artin-
©a l l , as brought by Mr. M. W i l s o n , and confirmed by all
who were with him on the expedition. By diir returned
countrymen, infmmatian was alio brought, that A b b a
T hULÊe purpófèdto paytheA^yijfö avifit in four or five
days". By what ourcountrymen could obferve,: AkriNUAiLE
appeared the. larged: óf any. of the iflands.. ;
The pinnace Was fenthfter breakfaft to thé wreck, to fee
what other materials Could be procured; it returned in .the
afternoon, bringing tome good plank, arid' a .large x|uan-
tityof fpike nails, ihings of the utmoft fervice in the fru-
finefc of eonftru&ring the veflel.
Encouraged by the fuccefs of the preceding day, the pinnace
again viiited the wreck, and brought back more of the
fame kind of materials.
After a ftormy night the day proving bad, little could be
done till afterndsm, when rite weather clearing, every hand
was bulled about the-veflel. And the "negt 'day^-the' pi n n acq
wa§ fent r'bund for the .jiuiber that had been eutj.alm'aft a
fufRciency , being pow pro cu red,th tfi fi^me^pf _ B a r a f |B |
being pearly eopipleted ;,,this d iv .(i turnaociwas cqnfirupfed
to heat the pla'nk, andf the day fidlowing ^all v crc employed
in dubbing the timbers^ and getting the firft plank uppit her.
bottom: more, materials .were alfoheQO^Qtl from the reck,
together' with, five hags, o f ripgyiy})
. T h is day three,i rfipre '.planks were got. upen,theHboi|t^Mn,
and .the bo ats-brought 'fifteen b»gs.wpf rice, .whiofn proved
mnft a c c ep tab le ; our p eop le at this time, fo®j®gb.v underg
o ing .very -ifevere daily -labour,« being: *at fo o t If allowable.
T h e , rice iw fs 'greatly d amaged b y h a r in g r .& ^ b w n ^ km ^ -
w a t e r ,'i t .wpuld .not h a il to -a grain,\bt$k foua^jeHy^Yet
hunger, ’and ..diftrefs give; a relifh to many whfobfjin
the lets "adverfe hours of life, the fancy appetite, would Idbk
nn with difdain J
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