An Account of the Pelew Islands, Situated in the Great South Sea. Composed from the Journals of Capt. Henry Wilson and his Officers; Who, in August, 1783, were there Ship-Wrecked in the Antelope Packet.

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The Antelope was a packet ship of the East India Company, wrecked on its maiden voyage on rocks near the Pelew Islands in Oceania, in August 1783. Once ashore, the crew used the timbers of the wreck to build a schooner, Oroolong, with the assistance of the Islanders; after three months they embarked home, leaving behind one of the crew, Madan Blanchard, and taking with them Prince Lee Boo. Keate's account, first published in 1788, was tremendously popular and ran to numerous editions both domestically, around Europe, and in the US - the present edition, originating in the Quaker community in Stanford, Dutchess County, in upstate New York, is preceded there by editions printed in Philadelphia and Brookfield, MA.