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 HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY; An Account of the Pelew Islands, situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean..Captain Henry Wilson..in August 1783 were there shipwreckedin the Anelope..

London: Printed for Capt. Wilson by G. Nicol, 1789. Third Edition. Leather-bound. Very Good Plus. 4to. Printed for Captain Wilson; and sold by G. Nicol, Bookseller To His Majesty, Pall-Mall. 3/4 leather with (scuffed) marbled paper boards. Gilt decorated spine. Red leather title label. Marbled edges and endpapers. Frontis portrait of Wilson. xxvii,[1],378p. 13 of 15 plates MISSING foldout chart before Introduction, and 2 of the 15 plates ("Cove and Tents"; "Views of The Land" ) Includes: A Vocabulary of the Pelew Language (pp.365-378). Clean copy with plates in good condition. Full title: 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 Honourable East India Company, By George Keate, Esq. F.R.S. and S.A. In 1783 the Antelope, commanded by Captain Henry Wilson, ran onto a reef near one of the Palau Islands, a pregiously unexplored group, and was wrecked. The entire crew managed to get safely ashore, where they were well treated by the natives and eventually managed to build a small vessel from the wreck in which they reached Macao. They took Prince Lee Boo one of King Abba Thulle's sons with them to England, where he made a very good impression;he unfortunately soon died of smallpox. Keate, a literary man, composed the relation from the journals and communications of Captain Wilson and some of his officers. (Hill p. 160).