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Clje |shinb ai ^^imitrpct. 



18tii September, 1858. 



Native boats in sight. — A pilot comes on board. — Communications of a white settler. 

 — Another pilot. — Fruitless attempts to tack for the island. — Roankiddi Harbour. 

 — Extreme difficulty in effecting a landing with the boats. — Settlement of Rei. — Dr. 

 Cook. — Stroll through the forest. — Excursions up the Roankiddi River. — American 

 missionaries — Tisit from the king of the Roankiddi tribe. — Kawa as a beverage- 

 — Interior of the royal abode. — The Queen. — Mode of living, habits and cus- 

 toms of the natives. — Their religion and mode of worship. — Their festivals and 

 dances. — Ancient monumental records and their probable origin. — Importance of 

 these in both a historical and geological point of view. — Return on board. — Sus- 

 picious conduct of the white settler. — An asylum for contented delinquents. — Un- 

 der weigh for Australia. — Belt of calms. — Simpson Island. — " It must be a ghost !" 

 — Bradley Reef. — A Comet. — The Salmon Islands. — Rencontre with the natives of 

 Malay ta. — In sight of Sikayana, 



"While yet, on 16th September, 1858, five or six knots 

 distant from the island of Pu3mipet,* first discovered in 



* Occasionally called Bonabe, Bonibet, Funopet (by the French, Ascension). It 

 lies in 6° 58' N., and 158° 20' E., and, with the two low atolls adjacent of Andema 

 and Paphenemo (called by the English Ant's Island ?ind Pakeen respectively) were 

 namedby their discoverer, Admiral Lutke, the Senjawin group, after the nameofhisship. 



