A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.
1With both Chaplin and Denison she would now converse freely in the Pelew Island dialect.
2Papua or New Guinea is my portion, and it happens to lie near the Pelew Isles.
3We left here the young Englishman, George Marsh, of whom I have before spoken, who was wrecked upon the Pelew Islands.
4She was a native of one of the Pelew Islands, a tall, slenderly-built girl, with pale, olive skin and big, soft eyes.
5In 1696 two canoes, with 29 Pelew Islanders, drifted to the coast of Sámar Island, and landed at the Town of Guivan.
6'Let us finish these Pelew men, ere mischief come of it,' said Riedermann, the captain.