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group at whicli she touched was Ulle. Torres 

 found here several of his old acquaintances, who 

 piloted the ship into tlie group ; and this was the 

 ship of which Kadu spoke to us : the name Borman, 

 of which he made Marmol, and Louis, as they 

 called de Torres, occurred in one of his songs, 

 which the Carolinians had composed, that these 

 men might not be forgotten. The preservation of 

 remarkable events in songs is therefore common to 

 the Carolinians and Radackers; but I do not know 

 whether the latter praise their heroes as is the case 

 with the Carolinians. Torres inquired why his 

 old friends no longer visited him in Guahon. They 

 then told him of the fleet which had gone there 

 fifteen years ago, and, as it had not returned, they 

 concluded that their countrymen had all been mur- 

 dered. Torres of course declared that no harm had 

 been done to their brethren in Guahon, but that a 

 raging storm had overtaken them the day after their 

 departure, and probably destroyed the whole fleet. 

 The Carolinians regretted the unfortunate accident, 

 but were rejoiced to hear that no murder had been 

 perpetrated, as they had imagined; they promised to 

 visit Guahon in the following year, and kept their 

 word. Since this time, eighteen canoes assemble 

 every year at the island-group of Lamureck, thence 

 they sail to Fojo (a desert island, according to 

 the description, lying to the north of Lamureck,) 

 which they reacli in t\vo days, rest there, and then 

 the fleet sails in three days to Guahon. The whole 



