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Henry Wilson (sailor)
Henry Wilson (1740–1810)〔(Nan Kivell Catalogue (PDF), at p. 74. )〕〔(pastellists.com (PDF) )〕 was an English naval captain of the British East India Company, from Rotherhithe.〔(portcities.org.uk )〕 He was in commanded of the British East India Company packet ship ''Antelope'', when it shipwrecked off Ulong Island,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Palau: Airai – Visitors: Explorers )〕 near Koror Island in Palau in 1783, and the East Indiaman ''Warley at the Battle of Pulo Aura.
==Voyage of 1783==
The context was the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War; normal routes from China westwards for British shipping were hampered by the Dutch East Indies. The ''Antelope'' had been returning from Macau by the "Eastern Passage", a route designed to avoid the south-west monsoon, but had strayed too far in the easterly direction.〔Howard Tyrrell Fry, ''Alexander Dalrymple (1737–1808) and the Expansion of British Trade'' (2006), p. 152; (Google Books ).〕
On the north coast of New Guinea Wilson anchored in the vicinity of the Schouten Islands. After some dialogue over two days with Papuan inhabitants who came out to the ship, in which Wilson used vocabulary collected by Thomas Forrest at Dory Harbour, Wilson felt the numbers he faced were threatening. He used small arms to deter them, and the crew of the ''Antelope'' was attacked, an encounter in which the artist Arthur William Devis was injured. The wreck on Ulong followed.〔Sudipta Sen, ''Distant sovereignty: national imperialism and the origins of British India'' (2002), p. 111; (Google Books ).〕〔''Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland'', Volume 3 (1835) p. 129 note;(Google Books ).〕
Although Spain had claimed the islands previously, Wilson's crew made the first sustained contact, which was friendly. One of the crew of the ''Antelope'' knew Malay, allowing contact to be made with the ''ibedul'' on Koror, whom Wilson treated as a local king, somewhat misapprehending his status which was more like an elected official. While his men spent three months rebuilding the ship, Wilson entered an effective alliance with the ''ibedul'' in conflicts with Melekeok and others. One of the ''Antelopes guns proved decisive, shipped in a boat and discharged with powder alone.
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