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Palau: Left Palau
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Brigantine ACIS, Capt Andrew Cheyne, on return from Macao and Manila, put in at Palau on Mar 7. Cheyne received a friendly welcome, but overheard a conversation regarding a plot to kill him. Several crew members were discharged at Palau. Ship left for Yap on Mar 23. On June 15, the Acis returned to Palau. Cheyne purchased much unoccupied land in Babeldaop and had the natives there collect beche-de-mer for him.
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During WWII, the United States attacked the Japanese base at Palau. They launched the "Desecrate I" air raid on March 30 and 31, 1944, which resulted in the Lost Fleet of the Rock Islands, Japanese shipwrecks that we dive today. The tiny island of Peleliu was besieged by U.S. forces for two months. The war obliterated the capital island city of Koror, shed blood on the reefs around Palau, and left a sunken graveyard of ships and bones in the still sea.
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British warship HMS ESPIEGLE, Capt Cyprian Bridge, visited Palau on Aug 7 to settle damages for O'Keefe's Lilla. Bridge cancelled Reklai's debt and concluded a peace treaty between Ibedul and Reklai. Left for Yap on Aug 12. Bridge gives a sketchy description of some anthropological and demographic interest. [Le Hunte 1883; Bridge 1883]
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