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A Narrative of the Shipwreck, Captivity and Sufferings of Horace Holden and Benj. H. Nute / Who were cast away in the American ship Mentor, on the Pelew Islands, in the year 1832; and for two years afterwards were subjected to unheard of sufferings among the barbarous inhabitants of Lord North's island cover

A Narrative of the Shipwreck, Captivity and Sufferings of Horace Holden and Benj. H. Nute / Who were cast away in the American ship Mentor, on the Pelew Islands, in the year 1832; and for two years afterwards were subjected to unheard of sufferings among the barbarous inhabitants of Lord North's island

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After a ship strikes a coral reef near a remote Pacific island, surviving crew are carried ashore and seized by local inhabitants. The narrative follows two seamen held captive for two years, describing their daily hardships, violence, and attempts at escape while they acquire the island language and observe customs such as tattooing, social divisions, and material practices. It furnishes estimates of population and geography, recounts scenes of plunder and conflict after the wreck, details efforts to construct a boat, and ends with encounters and outside assistance that enable the captives to leave the island.

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[6] No bamboo grows on Lord North's island, but it frequently drifts ashore, and the natives make knives of it.

[7] Used also by the Pelew Islanders.

[8] Numerals of the Caroline Islands, from the Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean, 4to, London, 1799.

One,iotaSix,honoo
Two,ruaSeven,fizoo
Three,tolooEight,wartow,
Four,tiaNine,shievo
Five,leemaTen,segga

[9] Tattooing instruments may be seen in the valuable East India museum, at Salem; and perhaps in some of the museums in Boston.

[10] What the import of this name Peeter was, we are unable to determine. They gave the same appellation to a character of great celebrity in their history, whose entire name was Peeter Kart; and who, according to their traditions, came from the island of Ternate, many years ago, and gave them their religion and such simple arts as they possessed. They said he was of a copper color, like themselves.