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168 CORALS AND CORAL ISLANDS. 
Swain’s and Jarvis’s Islands (figs. 3 and 4), are of still 
smaller size, and have no lagoon. ‘The former is densely 
covered with foliage, while the surface of the latter is sandy. 
Both islands are a little depressed about the centre, a fact 
indicating that there was formerly a lagoon. 
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TAIARA, HENUAKE, OR HONDEN, 
Fakaafo, or Bowditch (fig. 5), 200 miles north of the 
Navigator Islands, is the type of a large part of coral islands. 
The bank of reef has only here and there emerged from the 


JARVIS’S ISLAND. 

SWAIN’S ISLAND. 


FAKAAFO, OR BOWDITCH’S ISLAND. | 
waves and become verdant; in other portions the reef is of 
the usual height,—that is, near low-tide level,—excepting a 
few spots elevated a little by the accumulation of sand, 

