SEA CHARTS USED IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS. 



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a boat when the water indications are not plain and varying interpre- 

 tations have been made. Only in one chart, illustrated here as Chart 

 II, in the first line, can the geographic positions of the islands be 

 made out. 



As already said, the charts consist of a system of little sticks tied 

 together with shells fastened on them. The mussels represent neither 

 determined nor undetermined islands. The sticks are designed chiefly 



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Map of Marshall Islands. 



to bring to view the direction of the principal Dunungs' (not the cur- 

 rents, as was formerly explained to me, erroneously), the course of 



I Captain Winkler uses the word Diinung (plural Dunungen) for the special water 

 conditions noticed by the chiefs. As there is no English equivalent I have anglicised 

 the term, and will use dunung and dunungs as equivalents. These dunungs evu eiitly 

 mean the great swells as thev adapt themselves to the configuration of the islands. 

 Dr. Bastian suggests that the rippling of the water on the side of the canoe assists m 

 the interpretation.— Tkanslatok. 



