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According to Culpepper's Almanac, the Island of Peligos was first mapped by
Captain Joseph Broughton of the HMS Saffron, in 1769. Two years later the
atoll was claimed by the French and renamed Isle de Pelicos. However as
neither the French nor the British actually set foot on the island, its
natives remained blissfully unaware of this and all the subsequent
alterations to its status.
In many ways Pelicos is the personification of an archetypal Pacific Island,
peaceful and lush, its population rarely swells beyond half a thousand
souls. Situated some 450 miles east of the Sicmons, it swims in splendid
isolation, and although no cultural links exist between the isle and its
distant neighbor there are undoubtedly numerous ethnographic similarities
between the two.
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