308 ISLANDS DISCOVERED 



gave the name of Krnsenstern, lies in 10° 27' 15" 

 and 190° W. 



A sixth group, in 9° 51' 30'^ N. and 190° 46' 30", 

 and called by the natives Ligiep, was named after 

 Admiral Count Hayden. 



These six groups, as well as the four groups of 

 Arno, Mediuro, IVIille, and Bigar, which all lie 

 more south, but which Lieutenant Kotzebue was 

 not able to visit, form the chain of Radack. Ac- 

 cording to the accounts of the natives, there runs 

 to the west, and at a distance of about a degree, 

 a second similar chain, parallel to and quite re- 

 sembling the Radack chain, that is, in a direction 

 almost from north to south. This western chain, 

 which consists of nine large groups of islands, and 

 three single islands, is called by the natives Ralick. 

 There is no doubt to be entertained of its existence; 

 for all the accounts which Lieutenant Kotzebue, 

 while he remained near these islands, received from 

 the islanders were found quite correct, not only in 

 the distance, but also in the direction. The na- 

 vigator, therefore, to whom the examination of this 

 great archipelago shall be intrusted, may safely 

 reckon on the discovery of the Ralick chain if he 

 follows the chart which Lieutenant Kotzebue has 

 drawn up, according to the accounts he has received, 

 and which belong to the atlas of charts accompany- 

 ing this account of his voyage. He himself missed 

 it, as a violent current, during a stormy night, pro- 



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