THE PELEW ISLANDS. 
which our people termed frigates , as carrying orders from 
the King to his officers, flew about like arrows, and 
fcarcely feemed to touch the water.— In the grand ex¬ 
pedition to Pelelew, where a fleet of upwards of 
three hundred canoes, of different lizes, were collected to¬ 
gether, they formed a moll beautiful and fplendid ap¬ 
pearance. 
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