Definitions
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- noun a chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean
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Bastholm represents most nations as very vicious and immoral; and on the other hand he reports that excellent traits of character are found amongst some savage peoples; as, for instance, amongst the Orotchyses, the inhabitants of the island Savu, the Tunguses, and the Pelew islanders.
On Human Nature 2004
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At the end of the year 1898, after 327 years of sovereignty, all that remained to Spain of her once splendid Far Eastern colonial possessions were the Caroline, the Pelew, and the Ladrone Islands (_vide_ p. 39), minus the Island of Guam.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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Farther out in the Pacific, there are the Ladrones, the Carolines and the Pelew
The American Empire Scott Nearing 1933
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Pelew (Caroline) Islands, were martyred in 1701, and Chomé
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Pelew, Ladrones, New Guinea, New Britain -- had broken the wireless system of the Germans, and had captured eleven of the vessels of Germany.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Kelly Miller 1901
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With both Chaplin and Denison she would now converse freely in the Pelew
The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 Louis Becke 1884
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Stenhouse, the elder of the two, had some ten years previously, while sailing along the Pelew
A Memory Of The Southern Seas 1904 Louis Becke 1884
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Pelew Group where the cannons were sold to the chiefs, and the two captains gave a feast, and made merry generally, and got rid of nearly all their crew, taking Pelew men and seven Japanese in their places.
Concerning "Bully" Hayes From "The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton and Other Stories" - 1902 Louis Becke 1884
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Cymothoe living in our own waters that are close kin to the Pelew islander mentioned by Semper, and which are not blind.
The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881
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Uluthii of Lütke, Guapgolo and the Pelew group of the Caroline
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866
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