500 SEA CHARTS USED IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS. 



C is an Ai, land or distance mark, for Ebon Island. C F is a Rilil), or 

 east dunung-, C D a west dunung- for Ebon Island, C is the Boot formed 

 by the two on the Okar K E between Killi Island and Ebon Island. 



CHART IV. 



Dimensions from B to E, 156 centimeters; from B to U, 66 centime- 

 ters. It is a Rebbelib, or group chart, of the Ralik chain. The posi- 

 tion of the islands is insufficiently indicated by the mussels, as may 

 be seen by comparison with the charts. The interpreter Lojak did 

 not understand it at all; at first he was in great doubt about it, 

 since, as he said, it was, for the purpose of this Rebbelib, of no worth. 

 Its chief design must be the positions of the different shallows and 

 their course. 



Beginning at the south the identification of the nmssels is as follows: 

 E = Ebon island; Nk = Namorik; Ki = Killi; J = Jaluit; Ab = Ail- 

 inglablab; Jt = Jabwat; N = Namu; L = Lib; K = Kwadjelinn; Rk = 

 Rongerik; Rp = Rongelap; A = Ailinginae; B = Bikini; W=Wottho; 

 U = Ujae. 



The three curves, r, r, r, extending on the right side from B to E 

 stand for three Rilibs, the three on the left side for three Kaeli))s. 

 The Boots, or ''knots,'' on the Okar extending from the island of Jaluit 

 to Namorik are indicated at Aj Ao, which are occasioned by the Bung- 

 dockerik, or south dunung, and the Bungdockeing, or north dunung. 

 Thej'^ ought properly to lie in points h^ and bj running out from Jaluit 

 Island, but here the explainer said, it is all the same: he knew what 

 they ought to stand for, and knew, too, how to make them dear in their 

 present pla(;es. 



The Boots, or ''knots," on the Okar leading from Jaluit Island to 

 Ailinglabhib Island are shown at Cj and c,, which are formed Ijy the 

 Rilibs i\ and r,, and Kaelibs k^ and kg breaking on Jaluit island. Also 

 here lies Cv,, again too close to Ailinglablab. Explanation the same as 

 at a^. The Boots or "knots" on the Okar leading from Rongerik 

 island to Kwadjelinn Island and then to Namu Island are shown by d^ 

 and d,, formed by the Rilibs i\ and r^ and the Raelibs kg, k^. The 

 Boots on the Okar leading from Kwadjelinn Island to Ujae Island 

 marked e^ and e2 are formed from the Bungdockeings, or north 

 dunungs, buj, buj, and the Bungdockeriks bk^, bkg. The guide on the 

 chart passes, indeed, from Namu Island to Ujae Island, but the explainer, 

 Lojak, accented the assertion again and again that it had to be the 

 Okar from Kwadjelinn Island to Ujae Island, the mussel at N could 

 just as well stand for Kwadjelinn as Namu, although he had previously 

 designated the mussel at K as Kwadjelinn. 



The line bn makes clear the northern Bungdockeing, bk the south- 

 ern Bungdockerik, whose ends bn^, bn^, bk^, and bk^ turn into the 

 Boots Cj and e^. i 



