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under the lee of reefs and the drowsy roar of the ocean lulled us into 

 sleep. 



At Darnley Island we found our associates most comfortably housed 

 in the home of the magistrate, Mr. T. Arnold Williams, from which 

 hospital roof, indeed, they were most unwilling to be "rescued." 



But at last the peaks of the three extinct volcanoes which constitute 

 the Murray Islands loomed through the tropic haze, and still struggling 

 among the maze of reefs, we made for Maer Island, the largest of the 

 group and anchored under the lee of the mountain wall by the side of 

 its palm-edged beach. 



As our naptha launch approached the shore, the sands became black 

 with natives all gesticulating in much excitement, but we were most 



