Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Antelope East-India Pacquet: On the Pelew Islands, Situated on the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean, in August, 1783
The Antelope was not fitted out for the purpofe of adventure or difcovery; it was a pacquet commanded by Captain Henry Wilfon, and manned by a num ber of hands the greater part of whom are now in Britain, 'and can vouch for the reality of every circumflance. They were wrecked on this'alm'oi't unknown coafl, and after fuffering a feries of unparallelled hardlhips, were refiored to their country, their home and their friends, by the benevolence of this new race of men.
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