A chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean.
1 With both Chaplin and Denison she would now converse freely in the Pelew Island dialect.
2 Papua or New Guinea is my portion, and it happens to lie near the Pelew Isles.
3 We left here the young Englishman, George Marsh, of whom I have before spoken, who was wrecked upon the Pelew Islands.
4 She was a native of one of the Pelew Islands, a tall, slenderly-built girl, with pale, olive skin and big, soft eyes.
5 In 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.
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