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Ecture for the Kindness shown to the shipwrecked crew of the Antelope

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In later years the Pellew Flanders

gained

a-t-L

treatement

coil reputation

their

Jor

1. from

of shinpureated mariners

of whom it was stated died starvation & cruelty from accounts

extending to 1860 it was

that the thing of Chiefs

understood

were

friendly to

Foreignera, particularly to the English- That the thing nominally claimed over the whole group

sovereignty

but that only by force of

Arus tras

heable to uphold his supremacy The frendly natives cinhabited the the seat of Government

districts near

in the central part of the group but that the Character of

those in

the outlying districts was not to be

rched on

Huus Quinaldo visited the group in

1870 anchoring off the Kings residence in the Chief Village of Conor to receive the Shipwrecked.

of the British Barque "Jenown" _ The Commander this writes therson - "Wuiding that the

: the Renours during the 53 days

Crew

of the

+

they