10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PELEW ISLANDS»
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1
A Directory for the Navigation of the Pacific Ocean: With ...
... Beach (Vanikoro Island), 957 Pakatoa Island (New Zealand), 724 Pakeen or
Paguenema Group (Caroline Archipelago), 1084 Pakii Island (New Zealand),
724 Palaos or Pelew Islands (Caroline Archipelago), 1097 Pali, The (Oahu Island
), ...
Alexander G. Findlay, 1851
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A system of geography, popular and scientific, or, A ...
The others are very small. The inhabitants are said to resemble those of the
Philippines, but nothing is known with certainty respecting them. CHAP. X.— THE
PELEW ISLANDS. The Pelew Islands form a small cluster, not considerable for
their ...
3
An Account of the
Pelew Islands, Situated in the Western ...
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4
The Annual Review, and History of Literature: 1803
A Supplement to the Account of the Pelew Islands ; compiled from the Journals of
the Panther and Endeavour, two Vessels sent by the Honourable East India
Company to those Islands, in the Tear 1790; and from the oral Communications
of ...
5
The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, ...
DESCRIPTION of the PELEW ISLANDS, and Way of Living of the Inhabitants. [
From Keate's Account of the Pelew Islands.] " f? VERY part of the island the most
singular tree noticed at t^j called Coorooraa, of which Pelew, was one, in size
and ...
Andrew Kippis, William Godwin, 1789
6
The collected works of Sir Humphry Davy ...: Discourses ...
... us acquainted with the Pelew Islands. The French commanders Freycinet and
Duperrey have recently made valuable observations on these islands. In
productions they resemble the rest of Polynesia, except that the bread-fruit
abounds only ...
Hugh Murray, Sir Humphry Davy, John Davy, 1838
7
Strangers in the South Seas: The Idea of the Pacific in ...
In 1783 the British ship the Antelope was wrecked off the Micronesian Pelew
Islands (Palau). The islanders and their chief (Ibedul, or “Abba Thulle” as Keate
called him) were outstandingly helpful, and when the Antelope's captain returned
to ...
8
The Parlour Book of Foreign Scenery, Architecture and ...
PELEW ISLANDS, or Palaos, a cluster of islands in the western part of the Pacific
ocean, situated between the Phillippine islands and the Caroline islands. They
are about eighteen in number ; the names of some of the principal are Oroolong,
...
9
A system of universal geography: or A description of all the ...
It would be a heavy undertaking to enumerate the whole, and superfluous to
repeat under each these particulars which have necessarily a close resemblance
to one another. When we leave the Molucca sea, we come first to the Pelew
Islands ...
Conrad Malte-Brun, James Gates Percival, Jean-Jacques-Nicolas Huot, 1834
10
A narrative of voyages and travels in the northern and ...
Commodore John McClure, who commanded an expedition to the eastward, to
the Pelew Islands, New Guinea, New Holland, the Spice Islands, and others, was
also at that time lodging with him. The expedition was fitted out from Bombay, ...
