THE PELEW ISLANDS. 
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pofed the complement of the Antelope, I fhall, for the 
prelent, leave their refpe£ted Commander purfuing, with 
our young Prince, his ,voyage to England. —Being in¬ 
clined to hope that the character and conduct of thefe 
hitherto unknown people, whom I have introduced in the 
foregoing narrative, have interefted the reader, I fhall now 
give him fome account of the Government, Cufloms, Man¬ 
ners, and Arts, of the Natives of Pelew, as far as I have 
been able to collect them, from the different reports of the 
Captain, and fuch of his officers who have favoured me 
with their communications. 
DECEMBER. 
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