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SEA CHARTS USED IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS. 



From Jochom I learned that he had seen in northern Ratack charts of 

 entire!}' difierent form and application. I engaged Jochcm to send to 

 Jaluit such charts whenever he could procure them or could interest 

 persons living there to obtain specimens of them. 



With these prefator}^ remarks, it will now be in order for me to 

 give the interpretation of those in hand. 



CHART I. 



Dimensions from A to B, 79 centimeters. It is a Mattang, or instruc- 

 tion chart, also one which makes clear only in a general way the navi- 

 gation or the course of the dunungs between two islands. The islands 



Chart I. — A Mattang, or instruction chart. 



are in A and B fixed for north-south course, and in D and E for east- 

 west course. The sides A D, D B, B E, and E A serve rather to hold 

 all together, still D A and D B were pointed out as the Rilib or east 

 channel for D: E A and E B the Kaelib. or west channel for E; A D 

 and A E the Bungdockeing, or north channel for A; B D and B E the 

 Bungdockerik, or south channel for B. 



R R i points out the Rear, or east. 



t M is an east duniiag or Rilib for A. 



V M is a Kaelib or dunung for A. 



u M is a Rilib or east dunung for B. 



w M is a Kaelib for B. 



