“ PELEW ISLANDS (Ger. Palauinseln, also Palao) , a group of twenty-six islands in the western Pacific Ocean, between 2° 35′ and 9° N., and 130° 4′ and 134° 40′ E., belonging to Germany. They lie within a coral barrier reef, and in the south the islands are of coral, but in the north of volcanic rocks. They are well wooded, the climate is healthy, and the water-supply good. A few rats and bats represent the indigenous mammals, but the sea is rich in fish and molluscs ”