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Mallalahee, Kongaiarahoi, Hamoa, ' 



Gonoogoolaiee, Kotoobooo, Neeootabootaboo, 



Toonabai, Komotte, Fotoona, 



Konnevy, Komoarrq, Vytooboo, 



Konnevao, Kolaiva, Lotooma, 



Moggodoo, Kofoo?ia, Toggelao, 



Looamoggo, Konnagillelaivoo, Talava. 



I have not the least doubt that Prince William's 

 Islands, discovered and so named by Tasman, are 

 included in the foregoing list. For while we lay at 

 Hapaee, one of the natives told me, that, three or 

 four days' sail from thence to the north-west, there 

 was a cluster of small islands, consisting of upward 

 of forty. This situation corresponds very well with 

 that assigned in the accounts we have of Tasman's 

 voyage to his Prince William's Islands. * 



We have also very good authority to believe that 

 KeppePs and Boscawen's Islands, two of Captain 

 Wallis's discoveries in 17*35, are comprehended in 

 our list ; and that they are not only well known to 

 these people, but are under the same sovereign. The 

 following information seemed to me decisive as 

 to this. Upon my inquiring one day of Poulaho, the 

 king, in what manner the inhabitants of Tongataboo 

 had acquired the knowledge of iron, and from what 

 quarter they had procured a small iron tool, which I 

 had seen amongst them, when I first visited their 

 island, during my former voyage, he informed me 

 that they had received this iron from an island, which 

 he called Neeootabootaboo. Carrying my inquiries 

 further, I then desired to know whether he had ever 

 been informed from whom the people of Neeoota- 

 bootaboo had got it. I found him perfectly ac- 



* Tasman saw eighteen or twenty of these small islands, every 

 one of which was surrounded with sands, shoals, and rocks. They 

 are also called, in some charts, Heemskirk's Banks. See Dalryrn- 

 ple's Collection of Voyages to the South Pacific Ocean, vol. ii. 

 p. 83. ; and Campbell's edition of Harris's, vol. i. p. 325. 



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