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to the E., and gave me to understand, that if we 

 left here at the rising of the sun, we could be 

 there already at its setting. According to this 

 description it must lie at a small distance from 

 Otdia, and I. did not doubt but that we should 

 discover it without difficulty. My friend further 

 told me that pandanus {Bob), bread-fruit {Mia), 

 and cocoa {Nt), grew at Enegup ; of the popu- 

 lation he gave me but a poor idea, assuring me 

 that there were only an old man and three women. 

 The old man was therefore only a chief over his 

 wives, or perhaps himself subject to a threefold 

 dominion. When our guests left the ship, I made 

 Lagediack a present of an axe, which Rarick al- 

 most envied him, and we parted on more friendly 

 terms than we had hitherto done. Some of our 

 gentlemen had been obliged to exchange names ; 

 Langin, who had conceived a particular friendship 

 for Lieutenant Schischmareff, called himself after 

 his name, Timaro ; and Chamisso's friend was 

 called Tamiso. They were not able to pronounce 

 the names in any other manner. 



I intended to wait for a day, when the wind 

 should blow fresh, to explore the strait to the S.W., 

 and as I had long had the plan of making a garden 

 at Otdia, where I could sow the seeds from the 

 Sandwich islands in the presence of the inha- 

 bitants, I went on shore at noon, accompanied by 

 Mr. Chamisso, to select a piece of ground for this 

 purpose. Near Rarick's habitation, we found an 

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