MAOUNA—OJALAVA—POLA. Q57 
ed when I left Europe. The situation of this 
island, as he has given it, corresponds exactly 
with my own observation. 
This same night, by favour of the clear 
moonshine, we saw the most easterly of the 
Navigators’ Islands, Opoun, rising from the 
sea like a high round mountain. Westward 
from it, and close to each other, lie the little 
islands Leoneh * and Fanfueh.* Near these is 
Maouna, with another little island at its north- 
east point. Forty-five miles further lies Oja- 
lava, and ten miles and a half from it Pola, the 
largest, highest, and most westward of the 
group: connected with them are several other 
small islands, which I shall hereafter have occa- 
sion to mention. 
As the chart which accompanies this volume 
accurately describes the geographical situation 
of all these islands, it is only necessary here to 
remark, that it was drawn up from the most 
diligent astronomical observations. 
All these islands are extremely fertile, and 
* Upon the maps, Lioné and Fanfouné ; the termination 
in A denotes, in the Polynesian language, the accent upon 
the last syllable ; as in the Tahaitian name Pomareh. 
