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host a little, I tried to learn, with Kadii's assist- 

 ance^ who was now accustomed to my pronunci- 

 ation, what he meant by Ralick j and received the 

 following information. The chain already known 

 to us from Bigar in the north, to Mille in the south, 

 is called by its inhabitants Radack, as I shall also 

 call it in the sequel ; to the W. from the chain of 

 Radack, another chain of islands runs parallel with 

 it, consisting of nine large groups, and three single 

 islands, with a numerous population, and is called 

 Ralick. Langemui explained the whole to me, 

 marking on a mat spread out, with the assistance of 

 small stones, the chain of Radack, which takes its 

 direction from N. to S. as far as to Eregup, and 

 then to S. W. As the groups, as far as w^e were 

 acquamted with them, were accurately laid down ; 

 his information respecting the Ralick chain de- 

 serves equal credit. After he had several times told 

 us the names of the groups, he directed us the 

 way which we must take from Ailu to reach them, 

 and which he did in the following clear and sensi- 

 ble manner. A small stone in his hand supplied 

 the place of a canoe ; he sailed with it from Ailu 

 at sunrise, arrived at noon, by a S. W. course, at 

 the island of Temo, and from thence, without 

 stopping, to the group of Legiep. (When we dis- 

 covered these in the sequel, we could not but 

 admire his accurate knowledge of those parts.) 

 He began his voyage the next morning from 

 Legiep, took a western direction, was two days 



