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xxix + [i] + 378pp. Portrait frontispiece, folding chart, 15 plates including 1 folding, rebound in modern calf backed cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine.
2nd Dublin edition. A vocabulary of the Pelew language’.
In August 1783, the Antelope, commanded by Wilson, ran aground near one of the Pelew islands and was wrecked. These hitherto unexplored islands were investigated by Wilson and his crew, who managed to escape safely to shore. The islanders treated them well, and when, by means of a small vessel built from the wreck, they left the islands for Macao, they took with them Prince Le Boo, or Libu, one of the king’s sons. Wilson brought him to England, where he created a very good impression, but unfortunately he later died of smallpox.
