Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Account of the Pelew Islands, Situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean: Composed From the Journals and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson, and Some of His Officers, Who, in August 1783, Were There Shipwrecked, in the Antelope, a Packet Belonging to the Hon. East India Company
The exploring untraverfed oceans, in fpite'of every danger that could menac?'or difmay - the difcovering multitudes of i?ands, and of people, whofe exifience was not known before - and the fame offixing the geogra phy of the Southern World, were the noble fruits of this bold and hazardous enterprife which will remain to fnc ceeding ages a monument of the zeal and patronage of george the third.
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